Pathways toward commercial perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics

E Aydin, TG Allen, M De Bastiani, A Razzaq, L Xu… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells offer a promising route to increase the power
conversion efficiency of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells beyond the theoretical single …

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 …

Silicon heterojunction solar cells with up to 26.81% efficiency achieved by electrically optimized nanocrystalline-silicon hole contact layers

H Lin, M Yang, X Ru, G Wang, S Yin, F Peng, C Hong… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells have reached high power conversion efficiency
owing to their effective passivating contact structures. Improvements in the optoelectronic …

Fully textured, production‐line compatible monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells approaching 29% efficiency

L Mao, T Yang, H Zhang, J Shi, Y Hu, P Zeng… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells are promising avenues for achieving high‐performance
photovoltaics with low costs. However, the highest certified efficiency of perovskite/silicon …

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 …

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 …

Biofuel production, hydrogen production and water remediation by photocatalysis, biocatalysis and electrocatalysis

AI Osman, AM Elgarahy, AS Eltaweil… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
The energy crisis and environmental pollution have recently fostered research on efficient
methods such as environmental catalysis to produce biofuel and to clean water …

Silicon heterojunction solar cells achieving 26.6% efficiency on commercial-size p-type silicon wafer

X Ru, M Yang, S Yin, Y Wang, C Hong, F Peng, Y Yuan… - Joule, 2024 - cell.com
Heterojunction formed at the amorphous/crystalline silicon (a-Si: H/c-Si) interface exhibits
distinctive electronic characteristics for application in silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells …

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 …

Monolithic perovskite‐silicon tandem solar cells: from the lab to fab?

F Fu, J Li, TCJ Yang, H Liang, A Faes… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This review focuses on monolithic 2‐terminal perovskite‐silicon tandem solar cells and
discusses key scientific and technological challenges to address in view of an industrial …