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 …

Dielectric surface passivation for silicon solar cells: A review

RS Bonilla, B Hoex, P Hamer… - physica status solidi …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon wafer solar cells continue to be the leading photovoltaic technology, and in many
places are now providing a substantial portion of electricity generation. Further adoption of …

Industrial silicon solar cells applying the passivated emitter and rear cell (PERC) concept—A review

T Dullweber, J Schmidt - IEEE journal of photovoltaics, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Even though the passivated emitter and rear cell (PERC) concept was introduced as a
laboratory-type solar cell in 1989, it took 25 years to transfer this concept into industrial mass …

Manufacturing metrology for c-Si module reliability and durability Part II: Cell manufacturing

KO Davis, MP Rodgers, G Scardera, RP Brooker… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
This article is the second article in a three-part series dedicated to reviewing each process
step in crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing process: feedstock …

[BOOK][B] New perspectives on surface passivation: Understanding the Si-Al2O3 interface

LE Black - 2016 - books.google.com
The book addresses the problem of passivation at the surface of crystalline silicon solar
cells. More specifically, it reports on a high-throughput, industrially compatible deposition …

Passivation of c-Si surfaces by ALD tantalum oxide capped with PECVD silicon nitride

Y Wan, J Bullock, A Cuevas - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2015 - Elsevier
We demonstrate effective passivation of a variety of crystalline silicon (c-Si) surfaces by
thermal atomic layer deposited (ALD) tantalum oxide (Ta 2 O 5) underneath a cap** …

Atomic Layer Deposition for High‐Efficiency Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

B Macco, BWH van de Loo… - Atomic Layer Deposition …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter illustrates that Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is in fact an enabler of novel high‐
efficiency Si solar cells, owing to its merits such as a high material quality, precise thickness …

Aluminium oxide thin film deposited by spray coating for p-type silicon surface passivation

K Srinivasan, A Kottantharayil - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2019 - Elsevier
A simple yet reproducible method to deposit high quality aluminium oxide (AlO x) film by
spray coating is presented. Excellent thickness and refractive index uniformity is …

High-efficiency industrial PERC solar cells for monofacial and bifacial applications

T Dullweber - High-Efficient Low-Cost Photovoltaics: Recent …, 2020 - Springer
The passivated emitter and rear cell (PERC) concept is currently rapidly being introduced
into industrial mass production and is expected to be the new silicon wafer based solar cell …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the impact of thermal annealing on c-Si/Al2O3 interface: Correlating electronic properties to infrared absorption

CY Lee, S Deng, T Zhang, X Cui, KT Khoo, K Kim… - AIP Advances, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Al 2 O 3 is the standard for the passivation of p-type PERC (Passivated Emitter Rear
Contact) solar cells. It is well established that the thin interfacial silicon oxide layer in …