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 …

Progress in passivating selective contacts for heterojunction silicon solar cells

Y Zhang, T Shi, L Duan, B Hoex, Z Tang - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic (PV) technology, particularly silicon solar cells (SSCs), has emerged as a key
player in meeting this demand due to its mature technology, prolonged stability, non-toxicity …

High‐Performance Transparent Electron‐Selective Contact for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

D Xu, Q Bi, K Li, K Gao, X Wang, W Shi… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
High‐efficiency silicon solar cells featuring doped silicon layer‐based carrier‐selective
contacts suffer from optical losses due to parasitic absorption. In this work, a high …

Design and Optimization of SiOx/AZO Transparent Passivating Contacts for High‐Efficiency Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

H Cai, Z Zhong, Q Nong, P Gao… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A highly transparent passivating contact (TPC) used for high‐efficiency crystalline silicon (c‐
Si) solar cells should meet several key criteria: high optical transparency, excellent c‐Si …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies for realizing high-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells

Y Zhao, P Procel, C Han, L Cao, G Yang… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells have achieved a record efficiency of 26.81% in a
front/back-contacted (FBC) configuration. Moreover, thanks to their advantageous high V OC …

Efficient Silicon Solar Cells with Aluminum‐Doped Zinc Oxide‐Based Passivating Contact

K Gao, D Xu, J Wang, Q Bi, Z Wu, H Lin… - Advanced Functional …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cells require passivating contacts to unlock their full efficiency
potential. For this doped silicon layers are the materials of choice, as they yield device …

[HTML][HTML] Revealing capacitive and inductive effects in modern industrial c-Si photovoltaic cells through impedance spectroscopy

DA van Nijen, M Muttillo, R Van Dyck… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
To achieve a high performance in sub-module power conditioning circuits, it is important that
power converters are designed in accordance with the photovoltaic (PV) cell impedance at …

Bifacial silicon heterojunction solar cells using transparent‐conductive‐oxide‐and dopant‐free electron‐selective contacts

A **e, G Wang, Y Sun, H Cai, X Su… - Progress in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The development of transparent electron‐selective contacts for dopant‐free carrier‐selective
crystalline silicon (c‐Si) heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells plays an important role in achieving …

[HTML][HTML] Sulfur-enhanced surface passivation for hole-selective contacts in crystalline silicon solar cells

Y Wang, Y Geng, H Hao, W Ren, H Zhang, J Li… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2024 - cell.com
Effective surface passivation is pivotal for achieving high performance in crystalline silicon (c-
Si) solar cells. However, many passivation techniques in solar cells involve high …

Study on the Thermal Stability of Molybdenum Oxide‐Passivated Silicon Solar Cells

Z Cui, Y Pang, H Tang, Z Liu, T Wu, Z Wang, H Lin… - Solar …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Dopant‐free heterojunction (HJ) solar cells are known for their simple process conditions
and low parasitic absorption. However, stability issues remain one of the major obstacles for …