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 …

Recent advances in materials design using atomic layer deposition for energy applications

B Gupta, MA Hossain, A Riaz, A Sharma… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The design and development of materials at the nanoscale has enabled efficient, cutting‐
edge renewable energy storage, and conversion devices such as solar cells, water splitting …

23.5%-efficient silicon heterojunction silicon solar cell using molybdenum oxide as hole-selective contact

J Dréon, Q Jeangros, J Cattin, J Haschke, L Antognini… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Interest in silicon heterojunction solar cells is growing due to their manufacturing simplicity
and record efficiencies. However, a significant limitation of these devices still stems from …

A silicon carbide-based highly transparent passivating contact for crystalline silicon solar cells approaching efficiencies of 24%

M Köhler, M Pomaska, P Procel, R Santbergen… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
A highly transparent passivating contact (TPC) as front contact for crystalline silicon (c-Si)
solar cells could in principle combine high conductivity, excellent surface passivation and …

Polysilicon passivated junctions: The next technology for silicon solar cells?

D Yan, A Cuevas, JI Michel, C Zhang, Y Wan, X Zhang… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Despite the maturity of crystalline silicon photovoltaics (c-Si PV), the last 6 years have seen
a string of efficiency improvements, most of which are centered around reducing the losses …

Progress and future prospects of wide‐bandgap metal‐compound‐based passivating contacts for silicon solar cells

K Gao, Q Bi, X Wang, W Liu, C Xing, K Li… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced doped‐silicon‐layer‐based passivating contacts have boosted the power
conversion efficiency (PCE) of single‐junction crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cells to over …

Atomic layer deposition of vanadium oxide as hole‐selective contact for crystalline silicon solar cells

X Yang, H Xu, W Liu, Q Bi, L Xu, J Kang… - Advanced Electronic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
High carrier recombination loss at the contact regions has become the dominant factor
limiting the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cells. Dopant …

[HTML][HTML] Performance evaluation of a solar photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) air collector system

NA Dunne, P Liu, AFA Elbarghthi, Y Yang… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the present study, the performance of a photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) air collector is
evaluated by revealing the temperature distribution and investigating the effect of the inlet …

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 …

Low Oxygen Content MoOx and SiOx Tunnel Layer Based Heterocontacts for Efficient and Stable Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells Approaching 22% Efficiency

J Li, Q Kang, Y Wang, Z Zhou, Z Sun… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cells, the hole transport layer (HTL) made of high oxygen
content MoOx (x> 2.85, H‐MoOx) evaporating from molybdenum trioxide is not ideal due to …