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 …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of plasmonic Aluminum nanoparticles shapes on optical absorption enhancement in silicon thin-film solar cells

M Rassekh, R Shirmohammadi, R Ghasempour… - Physics Letters A, 2021 - Elsevier
Scattering from metal nanoparticles near their localized plasmon resonance; especially, the
resonances of noble metals which are mostly in the visible or infrared part of the …

Analysis on the capacitance-voltage characteristics of metal-insulator-semiconductor capacitors based on thermally evaporated WOx on n-and p-type crystalline …

M Gülnahar, H Mehmood, HH Canar… - Materials Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tungsten oxide (WO x) thin films were deposited on n-and p-type crystalline silicon (c-Si)
wafers by thermal evaporation technique at room temperature. The electrical …

Engineering middle transparent electrodes for enhanced performance of parallel tandem organic photovoltaics

HS Kim, MA Saeed, JW Shim - Journal of Power Sources, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs) have emerged as leading materials for next-
generation energy sources. Despite the advancements in organic photoactive materials …

Fourteen percent efficiency ultrathin silicon solar cells with improved infrared light management enabled by hole‐selective transition metal oxide full‐area rear …

H Nasser, MZ Borra, EH Çiftpınar… - Progress in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The present study investigates the application of hole‐selective transition metal oxide (TMO)
layers (MoOx, V2Ox, and WOx) with silver (Ag) as full‐area rear contact to 22.5 μm‐thick low …

Multilayer emitter of molybdenum oxide/silver/molybdenum oxide thin films for silicon heterojunction solar cells: Device fabrication and electrical characterization

MM Makhlouf, MM Shehata - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2022 - Elsevier
In a simplified heterojunction crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cell, a molybdenum oxide/silver/
molybdenum oxide (MoO x/Ag/MoO x) stack has been investigated as an alternative to the …

On the application of hole‐selective MoOx as full‐area rear contact for industrial scale p‐type c‐Si solar cells

H Nasser, F Es, M Zolfaghari Borra… - Progress in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present the feasibility of integrating substoichiometric molybdenum oxide (MoOx) as
hole‐selective rear contact into the production sequence of industrial scale p‐type …

[HTML][HTML] Optical, electrical and structural properties of ITO/IZO and IZO/ITO multilayer transparent conductive oxide films deposited via radiofrequency magnetron …

A Seyhan, E Kartal - Coatings, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this study, we investigated the potential of multilayer TCO structures, specifically those
made up of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) and Indium Zinc Oxide (IZO), for crystalline silicon …

Numerical analysis of dopant‐free asymmetric silicon heterostructure solar cell with SiO2 as passivation layer

H Mehmood, H Nasser, T Tauqeer… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional silicon heterojunction solar cells employ defects‐prone a‐Si: H layers for
junction formation and passivation purposes. Substituting these layers with hole‐selective …

Physical device simulation of dopant-free asymmetric silicon heterojunction solar cell featuring tungsten oxide as a hole-selective layer with ultrathin silicon oxide …

H Mehmood, H Nasser, SMH Zaidi, T Tauqeer… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The dopant-related issues are amongst the major performance bottleneck in crystalline
silicon solar cells that can be alleviated via implementation of dopant-free layers. This work …