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 …

Transparent electrodes for efficient optoelectronics

M Morales‐Masis, S De Wolf… - Advanced Electronic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
With the development of new generations of optoelectronic devices that combine high
performance and novel functionalities (eg, flexibility/bendability, adaptability, semi or full …

A silicon carbide-based highly transparent passivating contact for crystalline silicon solar cells approaching efficiencies of 24%

M Köhler, M Pomaska, P Procel, R Santbergen… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
A highly transparent passivating contact (TPC) as front contact for crystalline silicon (c-Si)
solar cells could in principle combine high conductivity, excellent surface passivation and …

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 …

A brief review of transparent conducting oxides (TCO): the influence of different deposition techniques on the efficiency of solar cells

GT Chavan, Y Kim, MQ Khokhar, SQ Hussain, EC Cho… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Global-warming-induced climate changes and socioeconomic issues increasingly stimulate
reviews of renewable energy. Among energy-generation devices, solar cells are often …

Silicon heterojunction solar cells: Recent technological development and practical aspects-from lab to industry

J Haschke, O Dupré, M Boccard, C Ballif - Solar Energy Materials and Solar …, 2018 - Elsevier
We review the recent progress of silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells. Recently, a new
efficiency world record for silicon solar cells of 26.7% has been set by Kaneka Corp. using …

Organic–inorganic halide perovskite/crystalline silicon four-terminal tandem solar cells

P Löper, SJ Moon, SM De Nicolas, B Niesen… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Tandem solar cells constructed from a crystalline silicon (c-Si) bottom cell and a low-cost top
cell offer a promising way to ensure long-term price reductions of photovoltaic modules. We …

Industrial-scale deposition of nanocrystalline silicon oxide for 26.4%-efficient silicon heterojunction solar cells with copper electrodes

C Yu, K Gao, CW Peng, C He, S Wang, W Shi, V Allen… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
To unlock the full performance potential of silicon heterojunction solar cells requires
reductions of parasitic absorption and shadowing losses. Yet the translation of the …

Silicon heterojunction solar cell with passivated hole selective MoOx contact

C Battaglia, SM De Nicolas, S De Wolf, X Yin… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We explore substoichiometric molybdenum trioxide (MoO x, x< 3) as a dopant-free, hole-
selective contact for silicon solar cells. Using an intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon …