From crystalline to low-cost silicon-based solar cells: A review

M Okil, MS Salem, TM Abdolkader, A Shaker - Silicon, 2022 - Springer
Renewable energy has become an auspicious alternative to fossil fuel resources due to its
sustainability and renewability. In this respect, Photovoltaics (PV) technology is one of the …

Systematic review elucidating the generations and classifications of solar cells contributing towards environmental sustainability integration

KS Ahmad, SN Naqvi, SB Jaffri - Reviews in inorganic chemistry, 2021 - degruyter.com
Rapid escalation in energy demand and pressure over finite fossil fuels reserves with
augmenting urbanization and industrialization points towards adoption of cleaner …

Local enhancement of dopant diffusion from polycrystalline silicon passivating contacts

M Fırat, L Wouters, P Lagrain, F Haase… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Passivating contacts consisting of heavily doped polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) and
ultrathin interfacial silicon oxide (SiO x) films enable the fabrication of high-efficiency Si solar …

Modeling recombination and contact resistance of poly‐Si junctions

N Folchert, R Peibst, R Brendel - Progress in Photovoltaics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present a semi‐analytical model for the calculation of the current through and the
recombination in carrier‐selective junctions consisting of a poly‐Si/SiOx/c‐Si layer stack. We …

Crystalline silicon (c-Si)-based tunnel oxide passivated contact (topcon) solar cells: A review

H Ullah, S Czapp, S Szultka, H Tariq, UB Qasim… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Contact selectivity is a key parameter for enhancing and improving the power conversion
efficiency (PCE) of crystalline silicon (c-Si)-based solar cells. Carrier selective contacts …

Alternative dielectrics for hole selective passivating contacts and the influence of nanolayer built-in charge

S McNab, M Yu, I Al-Dhahir, E Khorani… - AIP Conference …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Highly passivating, hole selective contacts are required for future high efficiency silicon solar
cells. This worN investigates selected dielectrics as potential SiOx replacements to act as …

Fundamentals of and recent advances in carrier selective passivating contacts for silicon solar cells

B Bilal, H Najeeb-ud-Din - Journal of Electronic Materials, 2021 - Springer
The development of efficient contact schemes curtailing losses due to recombination at
directly metalized contacts is the final remaining bottleneck towards approaching the …

Towards low cost, industrially compatible silicon heterojunction solar cells using hybrid carrier selective passivating contacts

B Bilal, H Najeeb-ud-Din - Optical Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Carrier selective passivating contacts are emerging as pivotal research interests to boost the
life of solar cells based on semiconductors like silicon. These contact schemes target the …

Double POLO carrier selective contact based PERC solar cell for 25.5% conversion efficiency: a simulation study

S Kashyap, N Shrivastav, R Pandey, J Madan… - ECS …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Polycrystalline silicon on oxide (POLO) passivating contacts have emerged as a carrier
selective contact for high-efficiency Si-based photovoltaic (PV) devices. In this paper, double …

[PDF][PDF] Investigating the Impact of Temperature and Interlayer Defects on the Efficiency of Mo/ZnTe/ZnSe/SnO2 Heterojunction Thin Film Solar Cells: A SCAPS-1D …

SH Zyoud, AH Zyoud - Int. Rev. Model. Simul, 2023 - academia.edu
This study investigates the effect of using SnO2 as a window layer in a heterojunction
Mo/ZnTe/ZnSe/SnO2 thin film-solar cell, which, when compared to other absorber layer …