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 …

Recent progresses on defect passivation toward efficient perovskite solar cells

F Gao, Y Zhao, X Zhang, J You - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The disorderly distribution of defects in the perovskite or at the grain boundaries, surfaces,
and interfaces, which seriously affect carrier transport through the formation of nonradiative …

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 …

Passivation strategies for enhancing device performance of perovskite solar cells

Z Wu, E Bi, LK Ono, D Li, OM Bakr, Y Yan, Y Qi - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Because of high efficiencies and low-cost fabrication, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have
drawn great attention. Although an impressive power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 26 …

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 …

Sensitization of silicon by singlet exciton fission in tetracene

M Einzinger, T Wu, JF Kompalla, HL Smith… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Silicon dominates contemporary solar cell technologies. But when absorbing photons,
silicon (like other semiconductors) wastes energy in excess of its bandgap. Reducing these …

Lewis acid/base approach for efficacious defect passivation in perovskite solar cells

S Wang, A Wang, X Deng, L **e, A **ao, C Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have been materialized as a hotspot in the next-
generation photovoltaic technology due to their low-cost manufacturing process and high …

SiO2 surface passivation layers–a key technology for silicon solar cells

SW Glunz, F Feldmann - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2018 - Elsevier
High-efficiency silicon solar cells strongly rely on an effective reduction of charge carrier
recombination at their surfaces, ie surface passivation. Today's industrial silicon solar cells …

Research progress in doped absorber layer of CdTe solar cells

Y Wang, G Wang, Y Zhou, Q **e, J Chen… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
CdTe thin film solar cell, as an outstanding representative of the second-generation solar
cells, has been produced and applied on a large scale. However, due to the low …

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 …