Material strategies to accelerate OPV technology toward a GW technology

CJ Brabec, A Distler, X Du, HJ Egelhaaf… - Advanced energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the rise of the solar power century, photovoltaic applications and installations will go
beyond the traditional green field power plants and enter any aspect of daily life. Organic …

Guidelines for closing the efficiency gap between hero solar cells and roll‐to‐roll printed modules

L Lucera, P Kubis, FW Fecher, C Bronnbauer… - Energy …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
One of the biggest challenges for the commercialization of polymer‐based and other printed
photovoltaic (PV) technologies is to establish reliable up‐scaling processes that minimize …

Low-temperature graphene-based paste for large-area carbon perovskite solar cells

P Mariani, L Najafi, G Bianca, MI Zappia… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Carbon perovskite solar cells (C-PSCs), using carbon-based counter electrodes (C-CEs),
promise to mitigate instability issues while providing solution-processed and low-cost device …

Beyond 99.5% Geometrical Fill Factor in Perovskite Solar Minimodules with Advanced Laser Structuring

F Di Giacomo, LA Castriotta… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Perovskite solar cells, known for high efficiency and compatibility with various photovoltaic
(PV) applications, have garnered significant attention from academia and industry. Scaling …

Perovskite modules with 99% geometrical fill factor using point contact interconnections design

L Rakocevic, G Schöpe, B Turan… - Progress in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thin‐film photovoltaic technology, based on hybrid metal halide perovskites, has achieved
25.2% and 16.1% certified power conversion efficiencies for solar cell and solar module …

Laser Patterned Flexible 4T Perovskite‐Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Tandem Mini‐module with Over 18% Efficiency

RK Kothandaraman, H Lai, A Aribia, S Nishiwaki… - Solar Rrl, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Perovskite‐Cu (In, Ga) Se2 (CIGS) thin‐film tandem technology provides an exciting
prospect to achieve low‐cost high‐efficiency photovoltaic devices by high throughput roll‐to …

Scalable perovskite/CIGS thin-film solar module with power conversion efficiency of 17.8%

UW Paetzold, M Jaysankar, R Gehlhaar… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
All-thin film perovskite/CIGS multijunction solar modules, combining a semi-transparent
perovskite top solar module stacked on a CIGS bottom solar module, are a promising route …

A monolithically integrated high‐efficiency Cu(In,Ga)Se2 mini‐module structured solely by laser

S Nishiwaki, A Burn, S Buecheler… - Progress in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Monolithically integrated Cu (In, Ga) Se2 mini‐modules were fabricated in order to
reduce the width of patterning related dead area. The Cu (In, Ga) Se2 layers were prepared …

Potential of Photocurrent Improvement in μc‐Si: H Solar Cells with TCO Substrates Structured by Direct Laser Interference Patterning

M Soldera, K Taretto, J Berger… - Advanced Engineering …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Thin film solar cells based on weak absorbers like hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (µc–
Si: H) need an effective light management to maximize light absorption. In this work, the …

Achieving 34% efficiency with a dual-absorber solar cell design using CaRbCl3 and Ca3NCl3 perovskites

M Boujelbene, MR Khan, MA Rahman, A Ghosh… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study's DFT calculations show that the direct bandgaps of perovskite CaRbCl 3 and Ca
3 NCl 3 are 1.386 eV and 1.430 eV, respectively, confirming their semiconducting nature …