Revisiting thin silicon for photovoltaics: a technoeconomic perspective

Z Liu, SE Sofia, HS Laine, M Woodhouse… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Crystalline silicon comprises 90% of the global photovoltaics (PV) market and has sustained
a nearly 30% cumulative annual growth rate, yet comprises less than 2% of electricity …

Simple pretreatment processes for successful reclamation and remanufacturing of crystalline silicon solar cells

JK Lee, JS Lee, YS Ahn, GH Kang… - Progress in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents an effective method for recovering unbroken solar cells from
photovoltaic (PV) modules. The combustion process is effective at removing ethylene vinyl …

Crystalline silicon solar cell with an efficiency of 20.05% remanufactured using 30% silicon scraps recycled from a waste photovoltaic module

JK Lee, SW Ko, HM Hwang, WG Shin, YC Ju… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Several studies have aimed to develop methods for recycling and recovering valuable
materials from waste photovoltaic (PV) modules to keep up with the increasingly stringent …

Photovoltaic performance of c-Si wafer reclaimed from end-of-life solar cell using various mixing ratios of HF and HNO3

JK Lee, JS Lee, YS Ahn, GH Kang, HE Song… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
This study presents the re-fabrication of a crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cell using a Si wafer
reclaimed from the solar cell of an end-of-life (EoL) module, and an evaluation of its …

Base do** and recombination activity of impurities in crystalline silicon solar cells

LJ Geerligs, D MacDonald - Progress in Photovoltaics …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The optimisation of base do** for industrial crystalline silicon solar cells is examined with
model calculations. Focus is on the relation between base do** and carrier recombination …

Crystalline silicon solar cells and modules

I Tobías, C del Canizo, J Alonso - Handbook of Photovoltaic …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Crystalline silicon solar cells and modules have dominated PV technology from the
beginning. They constitute more than 85% of the PV market today, and although their …

Unified electromagnetic-electronic design of light trap** silicon solar cells

J Boroumand, S Das, A Vázquez-Guardado… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
A three-dimensional unified electromagnetic-electronic model is developed in conjunction
with a light trap** scheme in order to predict and maximize combined electron-photon …

Impact of pre-fabrication treatments on n-type UMG wafers for 21% efficient silicon heterojunction solar cells

R Basnet, W Weigand, JY Zhengshan, C Sun… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Silicon heterojunction solar cells achieve high conversion efficiency due to the excellent
surface passivation provided by the hydrogenated intrinsic amorphous silicon films …

Numerical analysis for efficiency enhancement of thin film solar cells

F Baig - 2019 - riunet.upv.es
[EN] A decade of extensive research has been conducted to enhance the power conversion
efficiency (PCE) of silicon (Si) solar cells and to cut their prices short. But still, the fabrication …

Fabrication of spherical silicon crystals by drop** method and their application to solar cells

T Minemoto, H Takakura - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Spherical Si crystals for solar cell substrates have been successfully fabricated by a
drop** method. In the drop** method, melted Si droplets were instilled at normal …