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 …

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 …

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 …

Improved quantitative description of Auger recombination in crystalline silicon

A Richter, SW Glunz, F Werner, J Schmidt… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
An accurate quantitative description of the Auger recombination rate in silicon as a function
of the dopant density and the carrier injection level is important to understand the physics of …

Status and prospects of Al2O3-based surface passivation schemes for silicon solar cells

G Dingemans, WMM Kessels - … of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The reduction in electronic recombination losses by the passivation of silicon surfaces is a
critical enabler for high-efficiency solar cells. In 2006, aluminum oxide (Al 2 O 3) nanolayers …

Enhancing the photovoltaic performance of Cd-free Cu2ZnSnS4 heterojunction solar cells using SnS HTL and TiO2 ETL

MA Rahman - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 chalcogenide semiconductor is a very promising absorber material for solar
cells and no longer fulfilled its realistic goals due to the possible challenge of defect-free …

Numerical analysis for the efficiency enhancement of MoS2 solar cell: a simulation approach by SCAPS-1D

MD Haque, MH Ali, MF Rahman, AZMT Islam - Optical Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The performance parameters of molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2) solar cell with antimony
trisulfide (Sb 2 S 3) hole transport layer (HTL) have been studied by One Dimension Solar …

On the c-Si surface passivation mechanism by the negative-charge-dielectric Al2O3

B Hoex, JJH Gielis, MCM Van de Sanden… - Journal of Applied …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Al 2 O 3 is a versatile high-κ dielectric that has excellent surface passivation properties on
crystalline Si (c-Si)⁠, which are of vital importance for devices such as light emitting diodes …

Photovoltaic performance enhancement in CdTe thin-film heterojunction solar cell with Sb2S3 as hole transport layer

S Rahman, SR Al Ahmed - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, we design a novel cadmium telluride (CdTe)-based solar structure with
antimony sulfide (Sb 2 S 3) as hole transport layer (HTL). One Dimensional Solar Cell …

Silicon surface passivation by atomic layer deposited Al2O3

B Hoex, J Schmidt, P Pohl… - Journal of Applied …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Thin Al 2 O 3 films with a thickness of 7–30 nm synthesized by plasma-assisted atomic layer
deposition (ALD) were used for surface passivation of crystalline silicon (c-Si) of different …