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 …

Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells: From concepts and materials to prospects

J Melskens, BWH van de Loo, B Macco… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To further increase the conversion efficiency of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, it is vital to
reduce the recombination losses associated with the contacts. Therefore, a contact structure …

Origin of passivation in hole-selective transition metal oxides for crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells

LG Gerling, C Voz, R Alcubilla, J Puigdollers - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - Springer
Transition metal oxides (TMOs) have recently demonstrated to be a good alternative to
boron/phosphorous doped layers in crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells. In this work …

[HTML][HTML] Explorative studies of novel silicon surface passivation materials: Considerations and lessons learned

LE Black, BWH Van De Loo, B Macco… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Despite the existence of several highly effective and well-characterized passivating
materials for crystalline silicon surfaces, the topic of surface passivation and the …

Boron‐doped polysilicon using spin‐on doping for high‐efficiency both‐side passivating contact silicon solar cells

HJ Park, J Kim, D Choi, SW Lee, D Kang… - Progress in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study focuses on boron‐doped p+ polysilicon (poly‐Si) passivating contacts using spin‐
on doping (SOD). Experimental conditions, including annealing conditions, SOD …

Passivating electron‐selective contacts for silicon solar cells based on an a‐Si:H/TiOx stack and a low work function metal

J Cho, J Melskens, M Debucquoy… - Progress in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, the ATOM (intrinsic a‐Si: H/TiOx/low work function metal) structure is
investigated to realize high‐performance passivating electron‐selective contacts for …

High-quality silicon surface passivation by thermal-ALD deposited hafnium oxide films

S Tomer, M Devi, A Kumar, S Laxmi… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Excellent silicon surface passivation is achieved by atomic layer deposition (ALD) grown
hafnium oxide (HfO x) films on silicon surfaces (both n-type and p-type). It is inferred from the …

Ag doped ZnO thin films deposited by spin coating for silicon surface passivation

M Salem, H Ghannam, A Almohammedi, J Salem… - Silicon, 2023 - Springer
Synthesized pure and Ag-doped ZnO nanostructures through a simple co-precipitation
method, which was then applied onto silicon (Si) substrates using a spin-coating technique …

Implantation‐based passivating contacts for crystalline silicon front/rear contacted solar cells

G Limodio, G Yang, Y De Groot, P Procel… - Progress in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, we develop SiOx/poly‐Si carrier‐selective contacts grown by low‐pressure
chemical vapor deposition and boron or phosphorus doped by ion implantation. We …

Silicon solar cell architecture with front selective and rear full area ion‐implanted passivating contacts

A Ingenito, G Limodio, P Procel, G Yang, H Dijkslag… - Solar …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, the application of carrier‐selective passivating contacts based on tunneling
silicon‐dioxide and ion‐implanted poly‐Si in front and rear contacted Si solar cells is …