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 …

Device physics underlying silicon heterojunction and passivating‐contact solar cells: A topical review

RVK Chavali, S De Wolf… - Progress in Photovoltaics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The device physics of commercially dominant diffused‐junction silicon solar cells is well
understood, allowing sophisticated optimization of this class of devices. Recently, so‐called …

22.5% efficient silicon heterojunction solar cell with molybdenum oxide hole collector

J Geissbühler, J Werner, S Martin de Nicolas… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Substituting the doped amorphous silicon films at the front of silicon heterojunction solar
cells with wide-bandgap transition metal oxides can mitigate parasitic light absorption …

Silicon heterojunction solar cells: Recent technological development and practical aspects-from lab to industry

J Haschke, O Dupré, M Boccard, C Ballif - Solar Energy Materials and Solar …, 2018 - Elsevier
We review the recent progress of silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells. Recently, a new
efficiency world record for silicon solar cells of 26.7% has been set by Kaneka Corp. using …

Damp-heat-stable, high-efficiency, industrial-size silicon heterojunction solar cells

W Liu, L Zhang, X Yang, J Shi, L Yan, L Xu, Z Wu… - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells employ nanometer-thin stacks of intrinsic and doped
hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) films as carrier-selective contacts. To achieve …

Influence of light soaking on silicon heterojunction solar cells with various architectures

J Cattin, LL Senaud, J Haschke… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate the effect of prolonged light exposure on silicon heterojunction
solar cells. We show that, although light exposure systematically improves solar cell …

Light-induced performance increase of silicon heterojunction solar cells

E Kobayashi, S De Wolf, J Levrat, G Christmann… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Silicon heterojunction solar cells consist of crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafers coated with
doped/intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) bilayers for passivating-contact …

Increasing the efficiency of silicon heterojunction solar cells and modules by light soaking

E Kobayashi, S De Wolf, J Levrat… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
Silicon heterojunction solar cells use crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafers as optical absorbers
and employ bilayers of doped/intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) to form …

Towards an industrial in-line solution for efficient post-treatment of silicon heterojunction solar cells

J Veirman, JS Caron, P Jeronimo, T Gageot… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Light exposure is widely known to enhance the performance of amorphous/crystalline silicon
heterojunction (HJT) solar cells and modules. Recently, in an attempt to integrate such effect …

The rapidly reversible processes of activation and deactivation in amorphous silicon heterojunction solar cell under extensive light soaking

S Bao, L Yang, J Huang, Y Bai, J Yang, J Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Springer
Silicon heterojunction (HJT) solar cells use hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) to
form passivating contacts. To obtain high performance, many crucial applications have been …