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 …

Functional fiber materials to smart fiber devices

C Chen, J Feng, J Li, Y Guo, X Shi, H Peng - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The development of fiber materials has accompanied the evolution of human civilization for
centuries. Recent advances in materials science and chemistry offered fibers new …

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 …

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 …

Nanoscale localized contacts for high fill factors in polymer-passivated perovskite solar cells

J Peng, D Walter, Y Ren, M Tebyetekerwa, Y Wu… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Polymer passivation layers can improve the open-circuit voltage of perovskite solar cells
when inserted at the perovskite–charge transport layer interfaces. Unfortunately, many such …

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 …

High-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells: status and perspectives

C Battaglia, A Cuevas, S De Wolf - Energy & Environmental Science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
With a global market share of about 90%, crystalline silicon is by far the most important
photovoltaic technology today. This article reviews the dynamic field of crystalline silicon …

Design considerations for multi-terawatt scale manufacturing of existing and future photovoltaic technologies: challenges and opportunities related to silver, indium …

Y Zhang, M Kim, L Wang, P Verlinden… - Energy & Environmental …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
To significantly impact climate change, the annual photovoltaic (PV) module production rate
must dramatically increase from∼ 135 gigawatts (GW) in 2020 to∼ 3 terawatts (TW) around …

Crystallography, morphology, electronic structure, and transport in non-fullerene/non-indacenodithienothiophene polymer: Y6 solar cells

W Zhu, AP Spencer, S Mukherjee… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Emerging nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) with crystalline domains enable high-performance
bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. Thermal annealing is known to enhance the BHJ …

Toward efficiency limits of crystalline silicon solar cells: recent progress in high‐efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells

Z Sun, X Chen, Y He, J Li, J Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photovoltaic (PV) technology is ready to become one of the main energy sources of, and
contributers to, carbon neutrality by the mid‐21st century. In 2020, a total of 135 GW of PV …