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 …

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 …

Polarization-resolved black phosphorus/molybdenum disulfide mid-wave infrared photodiodes with high detectivity at room temperature

J Bullock, M Amani, J Cho, YZ Chen, GH Ahn… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Infrared photodetectors are currently subject to a rapidly expanding application space, with
an increasing demand for compact, sensitive and inexpensive detectors. Despite continued …

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 …

Efficient silicon solar cells with dopant-free asymmetric heterocontacts

J Bullock, M Hettick, J Geissbühler, AJ Ong, T Allen… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
A salient characteristic of solar cells is their ability to subject photo-generated electrons and
holes to pathways of asymmetrical conductivity—'assisting'them towards their respective …

23.5%-efficient silicon heterojunction silicon solar cell using molybdenum oxide as hole-selective contact

J Dréon, Q Jeangros, J Cattin, J Haschke, L Antognini… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Interest in silicon heterojunction solar cells is growing due to their manufacturing simplicity
and record efficiencies. However, a significant limitation of these devices still stems from …

Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells: From concepts and materials to prospects

J Melskens, BWH van de Loo, B Macco… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To further increase the conversion efficiency of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, it is vital to
reduce the recombination losses associated with the contacts. Therefore, a contact structure …

22.5% efficient silicon heterojunction solar cell with molybdenum oxide hole collector

J Geissbühler, J Werner, S Martin de Nicolas… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Substituting the doped amorphous silicon films at the front of silicon heterojunction solar
cells with wide-bandgap transition metal oxides can mitigate parasitic light absorption …

Transition metal oxides as hole-selective contacts in silicon heterojunctions solar cells

LG Gerling, S Mahato, A Morales-Vilches… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
This work reports on a comparative study comprising three transition metal oxides, MoO 3,
WO 3 and V 2 O 5, acting as front p-type contacts for n-type crystalline silicon heterojunction …

Molybdenum and tungsten oxide: High work function wide band gap contact materials for hole selective contacts of silicon solar cells

M Bivour, J Temmler, H Steinkemper… - Solar Energy Materials and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The high work function metal oxides, tungsten oxide (WO x) and molybdenum oxide (MoO
x), were investigated regarding their ability to form a hole-selective contact for a crystalline …