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 …

Perovskite/Si tandem solar cells: Fundamentals, advances, challenges, and novel applications

Y Cheng, L Ding - SusMat, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The world record device efficiency of single‐junction solar cells based on organic–inorganic
hybrid perovskites has reached 25.5%. Further improvement in device power conversion …

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 …

Polysilicon passivated junctions: The next technology for silicon solar cells?

D Yan, A Cuevas, JI Michel, C Zhang, Y Wan, X Zhang… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Despite the maturity of crystalline silicon photovoltaics (c-Si PV), the last 6 years have seen
a string of efficiency improvements, most of which are centered around reducing the losses …

Fundamentals, present status and future perspective of TOPCon solar cells: a comprehensive review

DK Ghosh, S Bose, G Das, S Acharyya, A Nandi… - Surfaces and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar photovoltaics researchers have devoted enough time to improve the performance of
various types of high efficiency crystalline silicon based solar cells including passivated …

Carbon nanotubes for photovoltaics: from lab to industry

L Wieland, H Li, C Rust, J Chen… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in photovoltaics could have significant ramifications on
the commercial solar cell market. Three interrelated research directions within the field are …

Photovoltaic technology and visions for the future

MA Green - Progress in Energy, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Due to rapidly reducing costs, photovoltaics has suddenly emerged as a previously
underestimated new force in the race to control global warming. The technology now …

High-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells: materials, devices and applications

Y Liu, Y Li, Y Wu, G Yang, L Mazzarella… - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic (PV) technology offers an economic and sustainable solution to the challenge
of increasing energy demand in times of global warming. The world PV market is currently …

Revisiting thin silicon for photovoltaics: a technoeconomic perspective

Z Liu, SE Sofia, HS Laine, M Woodhouse… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Crystalline silicon comprises 90% of the global photovoltaics (PV) market and has sustained
a nearly 30% cumulative annual growth rate, yet comprises less than 2% of electricity …

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 …