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 …

Toward efficiency limits of crystalline silicon solar cells: recent progress in high‐efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells

Z Sun, X Chen, Y He, J Li, J Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photovoltaic (PV) technology is ready to become one of the main energy sources of, and
contributers to, carbon neutrality by the mid‐21st century. In 2020, a total of 135 GW of PV …

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 …

Gettering in silicon photovoltaics: A review

AY Liu, SP Phang, D Macdonald - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2022 - Elsevier
A key efficiency-limiting factor in silicon-based photovoltaic (PV) devices is the quality of the
silicon material itself. With evolving cell architectures that better address other efficiency-loss …

An extensive investigation of structural, electronic, and optical properties of inorganic perovskite Ca3AsCl3 for photovoltaic and optoelectronic applications: a first …

KK Mishra, S Chahar, R Sharma - Solid State Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
Perovskite-based solar cells have been researched for quite some time with the highest
reported values of power conversion efficiencies at around 30.9%. However, commonly …

[PDF][PDF] Crystalline silicon solar cells: state-of-the-art and future developments

SW Glunz, R Preu, D Biro - Comprehensive renewable energy, 2012 - researchgate.net
Crystalline silicon solar cells have dominated the photovoltaic market since the very
beginning in the 1950's. Silicon is non-toxic and abundantly available in the earth crust …

Advanced bulk defect passivation for silicon solar cells

BJ Hallam, PG Hamer, SR Wenham… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Through an advanced hydrogenation process that involves controlling and manipulating the
hydrogen charge state, substantial increases in the bulk minority carrier lifetime are …

Light and elevated temperature induced degradation in p-type and n-type cast-grown multicrystalline and mono-like silicon

HC Sio, H Wang, Q Wang, C Sun, W Chen, H Jin… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
We compare light induced degradation behaviours in lifetime samples and fully fabricated
solar cells made from p-type boron-doped high performance multicrystalline silicon, p-type …

Nickel: A very fast diffuser in silicon

J Lindroos, DP Fenning, DJ Backlund… - Journal of applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Nickel is increasingly used in both IC and photovoltaic device fabrication, yet it has the
potential to create highly recombination-active precipitates in silicon. For nearly three …

Grain boundary segregation in multicrystalline silicon: correlative characterization by EBSD, EBIC, and atom probe tomography

A Stoffers, O Cojocaru‐Mirédin… - Progress in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study aims to better understand the influence of crystallographic structure and impurity
decoration on the recombination activity at grain boundaries in multicrystalline silicon. A …