Passivating contacts for high-efficiency silicon-based solar cells: from single-junction to tandem architecture

J Zhou, Q Huang, Y Ding, G Hou, Y Zhao - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The electricity market from renewable energies is strongly driven by the pursuit of high
energy conversion efficiency, which at present represents the most effective pathway to …

Recent progress in inorganic hole transport materials for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

B Gil, AJ Yun, Y Lee, J Kim, B Lee, B Park - Electronic Materials Letters, 2019 - Springer
Organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are considered as one of the most
promising emerging photovoltaics with outstanding performance. However, the commonly …

Silicon heterojunction solar cell with interdigitated back contacts for a photoconversion efficiency over 26%

K Yoshikawa, H Kawasaki, W Yoshida, T Irie, K Konishi… - Nature energy, 2017 - nature.com
Improving the photoconversion efficiency of silicon solar cells is crucial to further the
deployment of renewable electricity. Essential device properties such as lifetime, series …

Exceeding conversion efficiency of 26% by heterojunction interdigitated back contact solar cell with thin film Si technology

K Yoshikawa, W Yoshida, T Irie, H Kawasaki… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
We have developed heterojunction interdigitated back contact solar cell with conversion
efficiency of 26.6%(designated area: 180 cm 2) independently confirmed by Fraunhofer …

Achievement of more than 25% conversion efficiency with crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cell

K Masuko, M Shigematsu, T Hashiguchi… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The crystalline silicon heterojunction structure adopted in photovoltaic modules
commercialized as Panasonic's HIT has significantly reduced recombination loss, resulting …

Three-terminal perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with top and interdigitated rear contacts

P Tockhorn, P Wagner, L Kegelmann… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We present a three-terminal (3T) tandem approach for the interconnection of a perovskite
top cell with an interdigitated back-contact (IBC) silicon heterojunction (SHJ) bottom cell. The …

Effect of amorphous Si cap** layer on the hole transport properties of BaSi2 and improved conversion efficiency approaching 10% in p-BaSi2/n-Si solar cells

S Yachi, R Takabe, H Takeuchi, K Toko… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We investigated the effect of a 3-nm-thick amorphous Si (a-Si) cap** layer on the hole
transport properties of BaSi 2 films. The contact resistance decreased with decreasing …

Atomic layer deposition of molybdenum oxide from (NtBu) 2 (NMe2) 2Mo and O2 plasma

MFJ Vos, B Macco, NFW Thissen, AA Bol… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Molybdenum oxide (MoO x) films have been deposited by atomic layer deposition using bis
(tert-butylimido)-bis (dimethylamido) molybdenum and oxygen plasma, within a temperature …

Simple processing of back-contacted silicon heterojunction solar cells using selective-area crystalline growth

A Tomasi, B Paviet-Salomon, Q Jeangros, J Haschke… - Nature Energy, 2017 - nature.com
For crystalline-silicon solar cells, voltages close to the theoretical limit are nowadays readily
achievable when using passivating contacts. Conversely, maximal current generation …

The role of heterointerfaces and subgap energy states on transport mechanisms in silicon heterojunction solar cells

P Procel, H Xu, A Saez, C Ruiz‐Tobon… - Progress in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The contact resistivity is a key parameter to reach high conversion efficiency in solar cells,
especially in architectures based on the so‐called carrier‐selective contacts. The …