A review of various single layer, bilayer, and multilayer TCO materials and their applications

SM Rozati, SAM Ziabari - Materials chemistry and physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Since fabricating the first transparent conductive oxide (TCO) material, several investigations
and applications have been reported in such fields as portable and flexible electronics, solar …

[HTML][HTML] Current status and challenges for hole-selective poly-silicon based passivating contacts

R Basnet, D Yan, D Kang, MM Shehata… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Doped polysilicon (poly-Si) passivating contacts have emerged as a key technology for the
next generation of silicon solar cells in mass production, owing to their excellent …

Polysilicon passivated junctions: The next technology for silicon solar cells?

D Yan, A Cuevas, JI Michel, C Zhang, Y Wan, X Zhang… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Despite the maturity of crystalline silicon photovoltaics (c-Si PV), the last 6 years have seen
a string of efficiency improvements, most of which are centered around reducing the losses …

Recent advancements in poly-Si/SiO x passivating contacts for high-efficiency silicon solar cells: technology review and perspectives

J Zhou, X Su, Q Huang, B Zhang, J Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
As photovoltaics (PVs) made out of crystalline silicon (c-Si) have become more
commonplace, the past decade has witnessed leaps and bounds in performance advances …

Ultrathin silicon oxide prepared by in-line plasma-assisted N2O oxidation (PANO) and the application for n-type polysilicon passivated contact

Y Huang, M Liao, Z Wang, X Guo, C Jiang… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
We develop a plasma-assisted nitrous-oxide (N 2 O) gas oxidation (PANO) method to
prepare the ultrathin silicon oxide (SiO x) for polysilicon (poly-Si) passivated contact. The …

Metal contact recombination in monoPoly™ solar cells with screen-printed & fire-through contacts

P Padhamnath, J Wong, B Nagarajan, JK Buatis… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
We present a detailed analysis of the contact properties with screen printed fire-through (FT)
metal pastes on phosphorus doped (n+) polysilicon (poly-Si) layers. Two different pastes are …

Regionalizing Nitrogen Do** of Polysilicon Films Enabling High‐Efficiency Tunnel Oxide Passivating Contact Silicon Solar Cells

Z Liu, Z Lin, W Liu, L Yang, N Lin, M Liao, X Yu, Z Yang… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tunnel oxide passivating contact (TOPCon) solar cells (SCs) as one of the most competitive
crystalline silicon (c‐Si) technologies for the TW‐scaled photovoltaic (PV) market require …

Development of thin polysilicon layers for application in monoPoly™ cells with screen-printed and fired metallization

P Padhamnath, A Khanna, N Nandakumar… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Passivating contacts are an important technological innovation for crystalline silicon (c-Si)
solar cells that can deliver efficiencies of over 24% in mass production. In this study, we …

Excellent surface passivation of p-type TOPCon enabled by ozone-gas oxidation with a single-sided saturation current density of∼ 4.5 fA/cm2

N Lin, Z Yang, H Du, Z Ding, Z Liu, H **ng, M **ao… - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
High-quality p-type tunnel oxide passivated contact (p-type TOPCon) is a feasible technical
solution to further improve the efficiency of TOPCon silicon solar cells. Plasma-enhanced …

Highly improved passivation of PECVD p-type TOPCon by suppressing plasma-oxidation ion-bombardment-induced damages

D Ma, W Liu, M **ao, Z Yang, Z Liu, M Liao, Q Han… - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) integrated with a plasma-enhanced chemical
vapor deposition (PECVD) boron-doped polysilicon has the potential to achieve high …