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 …

Design considerations for multi-terawatt scale manufacturing of existing and future photovoltaic technologies: challenges and opportunities related to silver, indium …

Y Zhang, M Kim, L Wang, P Verlinden… - Energy & Environmental …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
To significantly impact climate change, the annual photovoltaic (PV) module production rate
must dramatically increase from∼ 135 gigawatts (GW) in 2020 to∼ 3 terawatts (TW) around …

Toward efficiency limits of crystalline silicon solar cells: recent progress in high‐efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells

Z Sun, X Chen, Y He, J Li, J Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photovoltaic (PV) technology is ready to become one of the main energy sources of, and
contributers to, carbon neutrality by the mid‐21st century. In 2020, a total of 135 GW of PV …

High-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells: materials, devices and applications

Y Liu, Y Li, Y Wu, G Yang, L Mazzarella… - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic (PV) technology offers an economic and sustainable solution to the challenge
of increasing energy demand in times of global warming. The world PV market is currently …

Towards bifacial silicon heterojunction solar cells with reduced TCO use

C Han, R Santbergen, M van Duffelen… - Progress in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reducing indium consumption, which is related to the transparent conductive oxide (TCO)
use, is a key challenge for scaling up silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell technology to …

Progress in passivating selective contacts for heterojunction silicon solar cells

Y Zhang, T Shi, L Duan, B Hoex, Z Tang - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic (PV) technology, particularly silicon solar cells (SSCs), has emerged as a key
player in meeting this demand due to its mature technology, prolonged stability, non-toxicity …

> 85% indium reduction for high-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells with aluminum-doped zinc oxide contacts

Q Tang, W Duan, A Lambertz, K Bittkau… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) has long been known as a promising low-cost alternative
contact to conventional expensive indium-doped tin oxide (ITO) on silicon heterojunction …

Low-resistivity p-type a-Si: H/AZO hole contact in high-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells

Z Wu, W Duan, A Lambertz, D Qiu, M Pomaska… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
Decreasing the contact resistance between hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) and
transparent conductive oxide film (TCO) is beneficial for achieving high efficiency silicon …

Tantalum doped tin oxide enabled indium-free silicon heterojunction solar cells with efficiency over 25%

Q Zou, C Yu, Y Zhao, Y Liu, G Dong, Q Wang, X Ran… - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Reducing indium consumption has received increasing attention in contact schemes of high
efficiency silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells. It is imperative to discover suitable, low …

Status and perspectives of transparent conductive oxide films for silicon heterojunction solar cells

W Cui, F Chen, Y Li, X Su, B Sun - Materials Today Nano, 2023 - Elsevier
Efficiently harvesting solar energy into electricity via photovoltaic devices (also called solar
cells) exhibits a feasible way to tackle challenging energy supply. Over the past decades …