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 …

Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells

TG Allen, J Bullock, X Yang, A Javey, S De Wolf - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
The global photovoltaic (PV) market is dominated by crystalline silicon (c-Si) based
technologies with heavily doped, directly metallized contacts. Recombination of photo …

Reducing nonradiative recombination in perovskite solar cells with a porous insulator contact

W Peng, K Mao, F Cai, H Meng, Z Zhu, T Li, S Yuan… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Inserting an ultrathin low-conductivity interlayer between the absorber and transport layer
has emerged as an important strategy for reducing surface recombination in the best …

Solar cell efficiency tables (Version 58).

MA Green, ED Dunlop, J Hohl‐Ebinger… - Progress in …, 2021 - search.ebscohost.com
Solar cell efficiency tables (Version 58) Page 1 ACCELERATED PUBLICATION Solar cell
efficiency tables (Version 58) Martin A. Green1 | Ewan D. Dunlop2 | Jochen Hohl-Ebinger3 …

Design rules for high-efficiency both-sides-contacted silicon solar cells with balanced charge carrier transport and recombination losses

A Richter, R Müller, J Benick, F Feldmann… - Nature energy, 2021 - nature.com
The photovoltaic industry is dominated by crystalline silicon solar cells. Although
interdigitated back-contact cells have yielded the highest efficiency, both-sides-contacted …

Towards the 10‐Year Milestone of Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Z Ying, X Yang, X Wang, J Ye - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell represents one of the most promising avenues for
exceeding the Shockley–Queisser limit for single‐junction solar cells at a reasonable cost …

Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells: an overview of the current advances and future perspectives

W Li, Z Xu, Y Yan, J Zhou, Q Huang… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Solar photovoltaics (PV) are poised to be crucial in limiting global warming by replacing
traditional fossil fuel generation. Within the PV community, crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar …

Surface passivation of crystalline silicon solar cells: Present and future

J Schmidt, R Peibst, R Brendel - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2018 - Elsevier
In the first part of this paper, we review the developments which led to the present state-of-
the-art in the surface passivation of today's industrially predominant dopant-diffused …

n-Type Si solar cells with passivating electron contact: Identifying sources for efficiency limitations by wafer thickness and resistivity variation

A Richter, J Benick, F Feldmann, A Fell… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, the efficiency of n-type silicon solar cells with a front side boron-doped emitter
and a full-area tunnel oxide passivating electron contact was studied experimentally as a …

Passivating contacts and tandem concepts: Approaches for the highest silicon-based solar cell efficiencies

M Hermle, F Feldmann, M Bivour… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The efficiency of photovoltaic energy conversion is a decisive factor for low-cost electricity
from renewable energies. In recent years, the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells in …