Status and perspectives of crystalline silicon photovoltaics in research and industry

C Ballif, FJ Haug, M Boccard, PJ Verlinden… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaics has long been considered energy intensive and
costly. Over the past decades, spectacular improvements along the manufacturing chain …

High-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells: status and perspectives

C Battaglia, A Cuevas, S De Wolf - Energy & Environmental Science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
With a global market share of about 90%, crystalline silicon is by far the most important
photovoltaic technology today. This article reviews the dynamic field of crystalline silicon …

Review of light-induced degradation in crystalline silicon solar cells

J Lindroos, H Savin - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2016 - Elsevier
Although several advances have been made in the characterization and the mitigation of
light-induced degradation (LID), industrial silicon solar cells still suffer from different types of …

A wafer-based monocrystalline silicon photovoltaics road map: Utilizing known technology improvement opportunities for further reductions in manufacturing costs

A Goodrich, P Hacke, Q Wang, B Sopori… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2013 - Elsevier
As an initial investigation into the current and potential economics of one of today's most
widely deployed photovoltaic technologies, we have engaged in a detailed analysis of …

Evidence of an identical firing-activated carrier-induced defect in monocrystalline and multicrystalline silicon

D Chen, M Kim, BV Stefani, BJ Hallam… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
While progress has been made in understanding the behaviour of the recently identified
carrier-induced degradation mechanism in p-type multicrystalline silicon solar cells, little is …

[BOOK][B] Intrinsic point defects, impurities, and their diffusion in silicon

P Pichler - 2012 - books.google.com
Basically all properties of semiconductor devices are influenced by the distribution of point
defects in their active areas. This book contains the first comprehensive review of the …

Degradation of crystalline silicon due to boron–oxygen defects

T Niewelt, J Schön, W Warta, SW Glunz… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper gives an overview on the current understanding of a technologically relevant
defect group in crystalline silicon related to the presence of boron and oxygen. It is …

Mass production of p-type Cz silicon solar cells approaching average stable conversion efficiencies of 22%

F Fertig, R Lantzsch, A Mohr, M Schaper, M Bartzsch… - Energy Procedia, 2017 - Elsevier
Within this work, both the performance and reliability of industrial p-type monocrystalline
solar cells with dielectrically passivated rear side and corresponding modules are …

Hydrogen induced degradation: A possible mechanism for light-and elevated temperature-induced degradation in n-type silicon

D Chen, PG Hamer, M Kim, TH Fung… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work, we demonstrate a form of minority carrier degradation on n-type Cz silicon that
affects both the bulk and surface related lifetimes. We identify three key behaviors of the …

Fundamental boron–oxygen‐related carrier lifetime limit in mono‐and multicrystalline silicon

K Bothe, R Sinton, J Schmidt - Progress in photovoltaics …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Boron‐doped crystalline silicon is the most relevant material in today's solar cell production.
Following the trend towards higher efficiencies, silicon substrate materials with high carrier …