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 …

Passivating contacts for high-efficiency silicon-based solar cells: from single-junction to tandem architecture

J Zhou, Q Huang, Y Ding, G Hou, Y Zhao - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The electricity market from renewable energies is strongly driven by the pursuit of high
energy conversion efficiency, which at present represents the most effective pathway to …

Passivating Contacts for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells: An Overview of the Current Advances and Future Perspectives

W Li, Z Xu, Y Yan, J Zhou, Q Huang… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Solar photovoltaics (PV) are poised to be crucial in limiting global warming by replacing
traditional fossil fuel generation. Within the PV community, crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar …

Using Electron Microscopy to Explore Solar Cell Interfaces: Microstructures, Efficiency, and Stability

J Wang, J Hou, P Ma, X Zhang, K Zheng - ACS Energy Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Solar cell interfaces, including grain boundaries, twin boundaries, stacking faults, and phase
boundaries, are the main nonradiative recombination and degradation sites and affect the …

High Passivation Performance of Cat-CVD ia-Si: H Derived from Bayesian Optimization with Practical Constraints

R Ohashi, K Kutsukake, H Thi Cam Tu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
High-quality passivation with intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous Si (ia-Si: H) is essential for
achieving high-efficiency Si heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells. The formation of ia-Si: H with a …

Structural optimization and growth of intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon films by HWCVD

H Meng, X Wu, F Ma, Q Zeng, L Zhou - Solar Energy Materials and Solar …, 2024 - Elsevier
Although the silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell is the crystalline silicon solar cell with
highest conversion efficiency at present, its higher cost of production line has been a factor …

Suppression of the epitaxial growth of Si films in Si heterojunction solar cells by the formation of ultra-thin oxide layers

K Ohdaira, T Oikawa, K Higashimine… - Current Applied …, 2016 - Elsevier
The epitaxial growth of silicon (Si) films during the catalytic chemical vapor deposition (Cat-
CVD) of intrinsic amorphous Si (ia-Si) passivation films on crystalline Si (c-Si) wafers is …

Novel chemical cleaning of textured crystalline silicon for realizing surface recombination velocity< 0.2 cm/s using passivation catalytic CVD SiNx/amorphous silicon …

CT Nguyen, K Koyama, K Higashimine… - Japanese Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In this study, the development of a novel chemical cleaning method suitable for textured
surfaces of crystalline silicon (c-Si) used for solar cells is demonstrated. To remove …

Indium tin oxide sputtering damage to catalytic chemical vapor deposited amorphous silicon passivation films and its recovery

T Konishi, K Ohdaira - Thin Solid Films, 2017 - Elsevier
We investigated the influence of indium tin oxide (ITO) sputtering damage to various types of
amorphous silicon (a-Si) passivation films deposited by catalytic chemical vapor deposition …

Fabrication of nanographene using nickel supported by a tungsten mesh

A Heya, R Yamasaki, N Matsuo - Thin Solid Films, 2019 - Elsevier
A method for the fabrication of nanographene films using pentacene and H 2 gas was
proposed. A tungsten (W) mesh, a W mesh coated with nickel (Ni)(Ni/W mesh), and a W …