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 …

[HTML][HTML] Revealing capacitive and inductive effects in modern industrial c-Si photovoltaic cells through impedance spectroscopy

DA van Nijen, M Muttillo, R Van Dyck… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
To achieve a high performance in sub-module power conditioning circuits, it is important that
power converters are designed in accordance with the photovoltaic (PV) cell impedance at …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies for realizing high-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells

Y Zhao, P Procel, C Han, L Cao, G Yang… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells have achieved a record efficiency of 26.81% in a
front/back-contacted (FBC) configuration. Moreover, thanks to their advantageous high V OC …

Addressing the stability challenges of TiO x-based passivating contacts for high-efficiency c-Si solar cells

MM Shehata, TN Truong, G Bartholazzi… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
With the aid of the atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique, TiOx-based electron-selective
contacts have been produced with high optical transparency and excellent passivation of …

Aluminum and Molybdenum Co-Doped Zinc Oxide Films as Dual-Functional Carrier-Selective Contact for Silicon Solar Cells

Z Xu, X Liu, J Zhou, Y Yan, Y Song… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) is considered as a promising candidate as transparent
conductive oxide (TCO) for silicon heterojunction solar cells due to its high carrier density …

High‐Performance Transparent Electron‐Selective Contact for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

D Xu, Q Bi, K Li, K Gao, X Wang, W Shi… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
High‐efficiency silicon solar cells featuring doped silicon layer‐based carrier‐selective
contacts suffer from optical losses due to parasitic absorption. In this work, a high …

Tailoring protective metals for high-efficient and stable dopant-free crystalline silicon solar cells

Z Liu, H Lin, T Wu, Z Wang, Y Pang, G Wang… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dopant-free passivating contacts have the potential to be deposited at low costs while
exhibiting excellent electrical performance for photovoltaic devices. However, one significant …

Solution-processed vanadium oxide by low-temperature annealing for silicon solar cells with hole selective contact

T Wang, G Yu, Y Wei, W Liu, W Fu, Y Lin, X Wu… - Materials Science in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Transition metal oxides (TMOs) with high work function (V 2 O 5, MoO 3, WO 3) are very
promising hole selective materials for high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells, as they …

Investigation of H2 Plasma Incorporated ALD-TiOx Films as Hole-Selective Passivating Contacts in Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

CH Chen, SN Berriel, TM Currie… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this work, we present an integrated method for the deposition of TiO x through introducing
H2 plasma pulses into the atomic layer deposition process. The potential of TiO x films …

Stable Dopant-Free Electron-Selective Contact for Silicon Solar Cells

W Wang, L Cai, L Meng, N Chen, H Wei… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Commercialized passivated emitter rear cell (PERC) silicon solar cells feature direct contact
of metal with silicon, which leads to severe recombination loss and low open-circuit voltage …