Progress and prospects for ultrathin solar cells

I Massiot, A Cattoni, S Collin - Nature Energy, 2020 - nature.com
Ultrathin solar cells with thicknesses at least 10 times lower than conventional solar cells
could have the unique potential to efficiently convert solar energy into electricity while …

Recent advances in materials design using atomic layer deposition for energy applications

B Gupta, MA Hossain, A Riaz, A Sharma… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The design and development of materials at the nanoscale has enabled efficient, cutting‐
edge renewable energy storage, and conversion devices such as solar cells, water splitting …

Realization of 18.97% theoretical efficiency of 0.9 μm thick c-Si/ZnO heterojunction ultrathin-film solar cells via surface plasmon resonance enhancement

F Zhao, J Lin, Z Lei, Z Yi, F Qin, J Zhang, L Liu… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we demonstrate that the performance of c-Si/ZnO heterojunction ultrathin-film
solar cells (SCs) is enhanced by an integrated structure of c-Si trapezoidal pyramids on the …

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 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 …

High efficiency flexible PEDOT: PSS/silicon hybrid heterojunction solar cells by employing simple chemical approaches

D Sharma, A Srivastava, JS Tawale… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the development of efficient and cost-effective hybrid heterojunction solar cells (HHSCs),
thin-flexible solar cells based on conjugated polymer poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene) …

Performance‐enhancing approaches for PEDOT: PSS‐Si hybrid solar cells

Z Sun, Y He, B Xiong, S Chen, M Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The emerging energy crisis has focused significant worldwide attention on solar cells.
Although crystalline silicon solar cells are currently widely used, their high cost limits the …

Enabling transparent‐conductive‐oxide free efficient heterojunction solar cells by flexibly using dopant‐free contact

J He, G Wang, Y Qiu, Z Tang, F Ye… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Minimizing the optical parasitic absorption loss in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a‐Si: H)
and transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layers is considered an effective approach to further …

Atomic layer deposition enabling higher efficiency solar cells: A review

MA Hossain, KT Khoo, X Cui, GK Poduval… - Nano Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) can synthesise materials with atomic-scale precision. The
ability to tune the material composition, film thickness with excellent conformality, allow low …

[HTML][HTML] The better photoelectric performance of thin-film TiO2/c-Si heterojunction solar cells based on surface plasmon resonance

F Zhao, Y Yi, J Lin, Z Yi, F Qin, Y Zheng, L Liu, F Zheng… - Results in Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, the absorption of solar energy of thin-film c-silicon (silicon is 1 μm)
heterojunction solar cells (SSCs) with the combination of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) and TiO 2 …