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 …

New development of atomic layer deposition: processes, methods and applications

PO Oviroh, R Akbarzadeh, D Pan… - … and technology of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is an ultra-thin film deposition technique that has found many
applications owing to its distinct abilities. They include uniform deposition of conformal films …

Surface passivation of crystalline silicon solar cells: Present and future

J Schmidt, R Peibst, R Brendel - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2018 - Elsevier
In the first part of this paper, we review the developments which led to the present state-of-
the-art in the surface passivation of today's industrially predominant dopant-diffused …

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 …

Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells: From concepts and materials to prospects

J Melskens, BWH van de Loo, B Macco… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To further increase the conversion efficiency of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, it is vital to
reduce the recombination losses associated with the contacts. Therefore, a contact structure …

Black silicon: fabrication methods, properties and solar energy applications

X Liu, PR Coxon, M Peters, B Hoex, JM Cole… - Energy & …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Black silicon (BSi) represents a very active research area in renewable energy materials.
The rise of BSi as a focus of study for its fundamental properties and potentially lucrative …

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 …

High-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells: A review

S De Wolf, A Descoeudres, ZC Holman, C Ballif - green, 2012 - degruyter.com
Silicon heterojunction solar cells consist of thin amorphous silicon layers deposited on
crystalline silicon wafers. This design enables energy conversion efficiencies above 20% at …

Atomic layer deposition: an overview

SM George - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
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