Status and perspectives of crystalline silicon photovoltaics in research and industry

C Ballif, FJ Haug, M Boccard, PJ Verlinden… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaics has long been considered energy intensive and
costly. Over the past decades, spectacular improvements along the manufacturing chain …

Smart textiles for electricity generation

G Chen, Y Li, M Bick, J Chen - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Textiles have been concomitant of human civilization for thousands of years. With the
advances in chemistry and materials, integrating textiles with energy harvesters will provide …

Reducing nonradiative recombination in perovskite solar cells with a porous insulator contact

W Peng, K Mao, F Cai, H Meng, Z Zhu, T Li, S Yuan… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Inserting an ultrathin low-conductivity interlayer between the absorber and transport layer
has emerged as an important strategy for reducing surface recombination in the best …

Solar photovoltaics is ready to power a sustainable future

M Victoria, N Haegel, IM Peters, R Sinton… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Thanks to fast learning and sustained growth, solar photovoltaics (PV) is today a highly cost-
competitive technology, ready to contribute substantially to CO 2 emissions mitigation …

Design rules for high-efficiency both-sides-contacted silicon solar cells with balanced charge carrier transport and recombination losses

A Richter, R Müller, J Benick, F Feldmann… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
The photovoltaic industry is dominated by crystalline silicon solar cells. Although
interdigitated back-contact cells have yielded the highest efficiency, both-sides-contacted …

The 2020 photovoltaic technologies roadmap

GM Wilson, M Al-Jassim, WK Metzger… - Journal of Physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past decade, the global cumulative installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity has grown
exponentially, reaching 591 GW in 2019. Rapid progress was driven in large part by …

Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells

TG Allen, J Bullock, X Yang, A Javey, S De Wolf - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
The global photovoltaic (PV) market is dominated by crystalline silicon (c-Si) based
technologies with heavily doped, directly metallized contacts. Recombination of photo …

A photovoltaic technology review: History, fundamentals and applications

RA Marques Lameirinhas, JPN Torres… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Photovoltaic technology has become a huge industry, based on the enormous applications
for solar cells. In the 19th century, when photoelectric experiences started to be conducted, it …

Towards the 10‐Year Milestone of Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Z Ying, X Yang, X Wang, J Ye - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell represents one of the most promising avenues for
exceeding the Shockley–Queisser limit for single‐junction solar cells at a reasonable cost …

Surface passivation of crystalline silicon solar cells: Present and future

J Schmidt, R Peibst, R Brendel - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2018 - Elsevier
In the first part of this paper, we review the developments which led to the present state-of-
the-art in the surface passivation of today's industrially predominant dopant-diffused …