Chemical modification of semiconductor surfaces for molecular electronics

A Vilan, D Cahen - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Inserting molecular monolayers within metal/semiconductor interfaces provides one of the
most powerful expressions of how minute chemical modifications can affect electronic …

State-of-the-art passivation strategies of c-Si for photovoltaic applications: A review

SP Muduli, P Kale - Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2023 - Elsevier
The carrier recombination is a major bottleneck in enhancing the power conversion
efficiency of first-generation solar cells. As a remedy, passivation minimizes the …

Temporary surface passivation for characterisation of bulk defects in silicon: a review

NE Grant, JD Murphy - physica status solidi (RRL)–Rapid …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate measurements of the bulk minority carrier lifetime in high‐quality silicon materials
is challenging due to the influence of surface recombination. Conventional surface …

The spatial collection efficiency of charge carriers in photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical cells

G Segev, H Dotan, DS Ellis, Y Piekner, D Klotz… - Joule, 2018 - cell.com
The spatial collection efficiency portrays the driving forces and loss mechanisms in
photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices. It is defined as the fraction of …

Superacid passivation of crystalline silicon surfaces

J Bullock, D Kiriya, N Grant, A Azcatl… - … applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The reduction of parasitic recombination processes commonly occurring within the silicon
crystal and at its surfaces is of primary importance in crystalline silicon devices, particularly …

Semiconductor surface functionalization for advances in electronics, energy conversion, and dynamic systems

AV Teplyakov, SF Bent - Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Semiconductors have played a tremendous role in the development of electronics since the
inception of the electronics revolution more than 60 years ago. Over this period, the …

40 years of inversion layer solar cells: from MOS to conducting polymer/inorganic hybrids

R Har-Lavan, D Cahen - IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, conducting and semiconducting polymers such as PEDOT: PSS and P3HT
have become commercially available, and as a result, a new type of polymer/Si …

Determination of carrier recombination velocity at inclined grain boundaries in multicrystalline silicon through photoluminescence imaging and carrier simulation

K Mitamura, K Kutsukake, T Kojima… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We present a quantification method of carrier recombination velocity of a general grain
boundary (GB) by combining steady state photoluminescence (PL) imaging and carrier …

Improving the Surface Passivation and Cleaning Quality of c-Si Wafers for the Application of TOPCon Solar Cells

M Chu, MQ Khokhar, F Wang, SK Dhungel, J Yi - Silicon, 2024 - Springer
The new generation of photovoltaic devices require high quality silicon wafer for solar cell
fabrication. Minority carrier lifetime is a basic parameter to be considered for the fabrication …

Electron-selective quinhydrone passivated back contact for high-efficiency silicon/organic heterojunction solar cells

Z Zou, W Liu, D Wang, Z Liu, E Jiang, S Wu… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Interfacial properties play a critical role in the dynamic process of carrier transport in dopant-
free silicon (Si) heterojunction solar cells (HSCs), based on the poly (3, 4 …