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 …

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 …

Mitigating parasitic absorption in Poly-Si contacts for TOPCon solar cells: A comprehensive review

S Deng, Y Cai, U Roemer, FJ Ma, F Rougieux… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Owing to their rapidly rising market share, TOPCon (poly-Si/SiO x passivating contact or
POLO contact) solar cells, which are projected to surpass PERC as the dominant solar cell …

High temperature annealing of ZnO: Al on passivating POLO junctions: Impact on transparency, conductivity, junction passivation, and interface stability

TF Wietler, B Min, S Reiter, Y Larionova… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the enhancement in transparency and conductivity of aluminum doped zinc
oxide (ZnO: Al) layers upon high-temperature annealing and its impact on contact …

Effects on Metallization of n+-Poly-Si Layer for N-Type Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact Solar Cells

Q Wang, B Gao, W Wu, K Guo, W Huang, J Ding - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
Thin polysilicon (poly-Si)-based passivating contacts can reduce parasitic absorption and
the cost of n-TOPCon solar cells. Herein, n+-poly-Si layers with thicknesses of 30~ 100 nm …

Development of ultra-thin doped poly-Si via LPCVD and ex-situ tube diffusion for passivated contact solar cell applications

X Yan, FB Suhaimi, M Xu, J Yang, X Zhang… - Solar energy materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rear side application of polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) passivated contacts has
demonstrated very high efficiencies for single-junction monocrystalline silicon (mono-Si) …

TCO contacts on poly-Si layers: High and low temperature approaches to maintain passivation and contact properties

E Bruhat, T Desrues, D Blanc-Pélissier… - AIP Conference …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Polysilicon (poly-Si) based passivating contacts are promising to improve silicon solar cells
conversion efficiency. Thin poly-Si layers usually feature high sheet resistances compared to …

Development of a transparent passivated contact as a front side contact for silicon heterojunction solar cells

M Köhler, A Zamchiy, M Pomaska… - 2018 IEEE 7th World …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a new transparent passivated contact concept utilizing microcrystalline silicon
carbide and an ultrathin silicon tunnel oxide (μc-SiC: H (n)/SiO 2) for the front side of silicon …

Front SiON/TCO Stacks Development for Double-Side Poly-Si/SiOX Passivated Contacts Solar Cells

C Seron, T Desrues, C Denis, R Cabal… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reports on the use of a front-side SiON/transparent conductive oxide (TCO)
bilayer in double-side poly-Si/SiO X-based passivated contacts solar cells. This approach …

[PDF][PDF] Transparent passivating contact for crystalline silicon solar cells

M Köhler - 2020 - scholar.archive.org
The goal of this work is to develop a transparent, passivating and conductive contact for the
light facing side of crystalline silicon solar cells. State of the art passivating contacts show a …