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 …

On the limiting efficiency for silicon heterojunction solar cells

W Long, S Yin, F Peng, M Yang, L Fang, X Ru… - Solar energy materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell, as one of the promising technologies for next-
generation passivating contact solar cells, employs an undiffused and n-type mono …

Ionic processes in water electrolysis: the role of ion-selective membranes

SZ Oener, S Ardo, SW Boettcher - ACS Energy Letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ionic separation and recombination processes in water electrolysis and fuel cell devices are
of equal importance as the electron transfer processes that occur at the electrode surfaces …

NiOx/MoOx bilayer as an efficient hole-selective contact in crystalline silicon solar cells

L Li, G Du, Y Lin, X Zhou, Z Gu, L Lu, W Liu… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2021 - cell.com
Designing effective carrier-selective contact is a prerequisite for high-efficiency crystalline
silicon (c-Si) solar cells. Compared to doped silicon thin films, wide-band-gap transition …

ITO/MoOx/a-Si: H (i) hole-selective contacts for silicon heterojunction solar cells: degradation mechanisms and cell integration

D Sacchetto, Q Jeangros, G Christmann… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Molybdenum oxide is an efficient hole collector for silicon solar cells. However, its
optoelectronic properties deteriorate during cell manufacturing. To assess this issue, the …

Polysilicon passivating contacts for silicon solar cells: interface passivation and carrier transport mechanism

W Liu, X Yang, J Kang, S Li, L Xu, S Zhang… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Polysilicon passivating contacts, consisting of a stack of tunnel-oxide and doped polysilicon
layers, can simultaneously provide excellent surface passivation and low contact resistivity …

Hole-selective electron-blocking copper oxide contact for silicon solar cells

P Ravindra, R Mukherjee… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Metal-oxide/silicon carrier-selective heterojunctions may be a low-cost high-efficiency
alternative to conventional silicon solar cells. Here, a passivated Si/cuprous oxide (Cu 2 O) …

Study on the improvement of the open-circuit voltage of NiOx/Si heterojunction solar cell

M Labed, N Sengouga, A Meftah, A Meftah, YS Rim - Optical Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Heterojunction solar cell based on nickel oxide (NiO x) as hole selective layer and n-type
silicon as an active absorption layer is a promising high-efficiency solar cell. Unfortunately …

Electrocatalytic properties of (100)-,(110)-, and (111)-oriented NiO thin films toward the oxygen evolution reaction

R Poulain, A Klein, J Proost - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2018 - ACS Publications
Oriented NiO films ((111),(100), and (110)), reactively direct current-sputtered on oriented
platinum films on top of MgO substrates, were studied electrochemically on a rotating disk …

Optically transparent and electrically conductive NiO window layer for Si solar cells

HS Kim, JE Park, M Patel, H Kim, DS Kim, SK Byeon… - Materials Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Nickel oxide (NiO) material has been functionally applied for Si solar cells. Optically
transparent and electrically conductive NiO was used as a window layer for Si solar cells to …