A review of recent progress in heterogeneous silicon tandem solar cells

M Yamaguchi, KH Lee, K Araki… - Journal of Physics D …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Silicon solar cells are the most established solar cell technology and are expected to
dominate the market in the near future. As state-of-the-art silicon solar cells are approaching …

Passivating contacts for high-efficiency silicon-based solar cells: from single-junction to tandem architecture

J Zhou, Q Huang, Y Ding, G Hou, Y Zhao - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The electricity market from renewable energies is strongly driven by the pursuit of high
energy conversion efficiency, which at present represents the most effective pathway to …

Four-junction wafer-bonded concentrator solar cells

F Dimroth, TND Tibbits, M Niemeyer… - IEEE Journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The highest solar cell conversion efficiencies are achieved with four-junction devices under
concentrated sunlight illumination. Different cell architectures are under development, all …

Two‐terminal III–V//Si triple‐junction solar cell with power conversion efficiency of 35.9% at AM1. 5g

P Schygulla, R Müller, D Lackner… - Progress in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
III–V//Si multijunction solar cells offer a pathway to increase the power conversion efficiency
beyond the fundamental Auger limit of silicon single‐junctions. In this work, we demonstrate …

Monolithic two-terminal III–V//Si triple-junction solar cells with 30.2% efficiency under 1-sun AM1. 5g

R Cariou, J Benick, P Beutel, N Razek… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stacking III-V pn junctions on top of wafer-based silicon solar cells is a promising way to go
beyond the silicon single-junction efficiency limit. In this study, triple-junction GaInP/Al x Ga 1 …

Wafer-bonded GaInP/GaAs//Si solar cells with 30% efficiency under concentrated sunlight

S Essig, J Benick, M Schachtner… - IEEE journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Highly efficient III-V/Si triple-junction solar cells were realized by a fabrication process based
on direct wafer bonding: Ga0. 51In0. 49P/GaAs dual-junction solar cells were grown …

[PDF][PDF] Overview about technology perspectives for high efficiency solar cells for space and terrestrial applications

AW Bett, SP Philipps, S Essig… - 28th European …, 2013 - researchgate.net
III-V multi-junction solar cells have become standard in space and in terrestrial concentrator
systems. The current landmark for III-V multi-junction solar cells is the Ga0. 50In0. 50P/Ga0 …

III-V Multi-junction solar cells and concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) systems

SP Philipps, AW Bett - Advanced Optical Technologies, 2014 - degruyter.com
It has been proven that the only realistic path to practical ultra-high efficiency solar cells is
the monolithic multi-junction approach, ie, to stack pn-junctions made of different …

Chemical bonding at room temperature via surface activation to fabricate low-resistance GaAs/Si heterointerfaces

Y Ohno, J Liang, N Shigekawa, H Yoshida… - Applied Surface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Bonding mechanism at room temperature (RT) in GaAs/Si heterointerfaces fabricated by
surface-activated bonding (SAB) is examined using cross-sectional scanning transmission …

State-of-the-art architectures and technologies of high-efficiency solar cells based on III–V heterostructures for space and terrestrial applications

NA Pakhanov, VM Andreev, MZ Shvarts… - … instrumentation and data …, 2018 - Springer
Multi-junction solar cells based on III–V compounds are the most efficient converters of solar
energy to electricity and are widely used in space solar arrays and terrestrial photovoltaic …