A review of crystalline silicon bifacial photovoltaic performance characterisation and simulation

TS Liang, M Pravettoni, C Deline, JS Stein… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Bifacial photovoltaic (PV) technology has received considerable attention in recent years
due to the potential to achieve higher annual energy yield compared to its monofacial …

Progress in solar cells from hydrogenated amorphous silicon

M Stuckelberger, R Biron, N Wyrsch, FJ Haug… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) has been used for decades—doped and as
intrinsic absorber layers—in thin-film silicon solar cells. Whereas their effiency was improved …

Two‐terminal III–V//Si triple‐junction solar cell with power conversion efficiency of 35.9% at AM1. 5g

P Schygulla, R Müller, D Lackner… - Progress in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
III–V//Si multijunction solar cells offer a pathway to increase the power conversion efficiency
beyond the fundamental Auger limit of silicon single‐junctions. In this work, we demonstrate …

Analysis of the annual performance of bifacial modules and optimization methods

UA Yusufoglu, TM Pletzer… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bifacial modules have the advantage of capturing sunlight from front as well as from rear
surfaces, and therefore, they are able to produce larger amounts of energy, compared with …

Wafer‐bonded two‐terminal III‐V//Si triple‐junction solar cell with power conversion efficiency of 36.1% at AM1. 5g

P Schygulla, R Müller, O Höhn… - Progress in …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, we present the fabrication and analysis of a wafer‐bonded GaInP/GaInAsP//Si
triple‐junction solar cell with 36.1% conversion efficiency under AM1. 5g spectral …

Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 monograin layer solar cells for flexible photovoltaic applications

M Kauk-Kuusik, K Timmo, M Pilvet, K Muska… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Monograin powder technology is one possible path to developing sustainable, lightweight,
flexible, and semi-transparent solar cells, which might be ideal for integration with various …

Ultrathin a‐Si: H/Oxide Transparent Solar Cells Exhibiting UV‐Blue Selective‐Like Absorption

AJ Lopez-Garcia, C Voz, JM Asensi, J Puigdollers… - Solar …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, the fabrication of transparent solar cells based on nanometric (8 and 30 nm) intrinsic
hydrogenated amorphous silicon films (a‐Si: H) and using oxide thin films as transparent …

A simple but accurate procedure for solving the five-parameter model

O Mares, M Paulescu, V Badescu - Energy Conversion and Management, 2015 - Elsevier
The current–voltage characteristic of a photovoltaic module is typically evaluated by using a
model based on the solar cell equivalent circuit. The complexity of the procedure applied for …

Revealing fundamentals of charge extraction in photovoltaic devices through potentiostatic photoluminescence imaging

L Wagner, P Schygulla, JP Herterich, M Elshamy… - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
The photocurrent density-voltage (J (V)) curve is the fundamental characteristic to assess
opto-electronic devices, in particular solar cells. However, it only yields information on the …

Quantitative analysis of degradation mechanisms in 30-year-old PV modules

Z Liu, ML Castillo, A Youssef, JG Serdy, A Watts… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantitative analysis of two 30-year-old PV modules is performed by a combination of the
equivalent-circuit model and optoelectronic characterization methods. The two modules …