Crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaics has long been considered energy intensive and
costly. Over the past decades, spectacular improvements along the manufacturing chain …

The global photovoltaic (PV) market is dominated by crystalline silicon (c-Si) based
technologies with heavily doped, directly metallized contacts. Recombination of photo …

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 …

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 …

Characterisation and optimization of next-generation silicon solar cell concepts rely on an
accurate knowledge of intrinsic charge carrier recombination in crystalline silicon. Reports of …

The efficiency of photovoltaic energy conversion is a decisive factor for low-cost electricity
from renewable energies. In recent years, the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells in …

A highly transparent passivating contact (TPC) as front contact for crystalline silicon (c-Si)
solar cells could in principle combine high conductivity, excellent surface passivation and …

The ever-increasing electricity demand from renewables has stimulated growth in the
photovoltaic (PV) industry. Yet, while grid parity has already been achieved in several …

Homo-and heterojunctions play essential roles in semiconductor-based devices such as
field-effect transistors, solar cells, photodetectors and light-emitting diodes. Semiconductor …

The formation of passivation films by interfacial reactions, though critical for applications
ranging from advanced alloys to electrochemical energy storage, is often poorly understood …