Seed‐assisted growth of cast‐mono silicon for photovoltaic application: challenges and strategies

P Wang, C Cui, D Yang, X Yu - Solar Rrl, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon has dominated the photovoltaic material market for a few decades. In contrast to
perfectly crystallized Czochralski (CZ) silicon, casting multi‐crystalline silicon attracts much …

The race for lowest costs of electricity production: techno-economic analysis of silicon, perovskite and tandem solar cells

LA Zafoschnig, S Nold… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Approaching efficiency limits for silicon photovoltaics and impressive efficiency gains for
new perovskite and perovskite silicon tandem solar cells trigger the question, which …

New method for extracting physical parameters of PV generators combining an implemented genetic algorithm and the simulated annealing algorithm

R Bendaoud, H Amiry, M Benhmida, B Zohal, S Yadir… - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The characterization at indoor conditions is insufficient to study the behavior of PV
generators physical parameters depending on environmental factors. For this purpose …

22.8% efficient ion implanted PERC solar cell with a roadmap to achieve 23.5% efficiency: A process and device simulation study

S Kashyap, J Madan, R Pandey, J Ramanujam - Optical Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Among all available photovoltaic (PV) technology options, c-Si based passivated emitter
rear cell (PERC) has already proved its mettle by delivering more than 22% conversion …

UMG silicon for solar PV: From defects detection to PV module degradation

E Forniés, C Del Cañizo, L Méndez, A Souto… - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Upgraded metallurgical grade silicon (UMG-Si) for photovoltaic (PV) solar applications has
been manufactured through the metallurgical route by means of the process developed by …

[HTML][HTML] The electrical properties of high performance multicrystalline silicon and mono-like silicon: Material limitations and cell potential

HC Sio, SP Phang, A Fell, H Wang, P Zheng… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
We compare the electrical properties of p-type and n-type industrially grown High
Performance (HP) multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) and mono-like silicon. The materials are …

Impurity gettering by boron‐and phosphorus‐doped polysilicon passivating contacts for high‐efficiency multicrystalline silicon solar cells

M Hayes, B Martel, GW Alam, H Lignier… - … status solidi (a), 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Highly doped polysilicon (poly‐Si) on ultra‐thin oxide layers are highlighted as they allow
both carrier collection efficiency with a low contact resistivity and an excellent surface …

Direct observation of hydrogen at defects in multicrystalline silicon

D Tweddle, P Hamer, Z Shen… - Progress in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen passivation is a key industrial technique used to reduce the recombination activity
of defects in multicrystalline silicon (mc‐Si). However, not all dislocations and grain …

Cost‐efficiency potential of solar energy on a global scale: Case studies for Si solar modules with PERC and heterojunction structures

T Kobayashi, H Katayama, Y Kinden… - Progress in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is a crucial metric for assessing the socio‐economic cost‐
efficiency potential of various energy sources including solar photovoltaics. Nevertheless …

Evolution of the light sensitive defects in high performance multicrystalline silicon wafers

R Søndenå, MS Wiig - Journal of Applied Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Sequential degradation measurements have been performed on passivated high
performance multicrystalline silicon wafers, first at room temperature under low intensity …