State-of-the-art passivation strategies of c-Si for photovoltaic applications: A review

SP Muduli, P Kale - Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2023 - Elsevier
The carrier recombination is a major bottleneck in enhancing the power conversion
efficiency of first-generation solar cells. As a remedy, passivation minimizes the …

A subtle review on the challenges of photocatalytic fuel cell for sustainable power production

P Mishra, P Saravanan, G Packirisamy, M Jang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The revolution in the arena of functional materials for the development of well advanced
engineered photocatalyst can efficiently harness photon energy from a wide spectrum of …

[HTML][HTML] Advance of Sustainable Energy Materials: Technology Trends for Silicon-Based Photovoltaic Cells

M Bošnjaković - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Modules based on c-Si cells account for more than 90% of the photovoltaic capacity
installed worldwide, which is why the analysis in this paper focusses on this cell type. This …

Recent issues and configuration factors in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells towards large scaling production

MI Elsmani, N Fatima, MPA Jallorina, S Sepeai… - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
The unprecedented development of perovskite-silicon (PSC-Si) tandem solar cells in the last
five years has been hindered by several challenges towards industrialization, which require …

Continuous distribution of interface states in n-type double-side poly-Si/SiOx passivating contact solar cells

L Yang, X Lv, Z Hu, S Yuan, B Li, Y Zeng, H Xing… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Advanced passivation contact in high-efficiency silicon solar cells plays an important role for
the sake of minimizing recombination losses. A stack of heavily doped polycrystalline silicon …

Comprehensive review on uses of silicon dioxide in solar cell

ASA Prishya, L Chopra - Materials Today: Proceedings, 2023 - Elsevier
Silicon Dioxide is a pleasant material with a wide range of application in semiconductor
devices. Ago days silicon solar panels utilized to exist readily precious as veritably high …

Role of graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides as hole transport layer and counter electrode in solar cells

MZ Iqbal, JU Nabi, S Siddique… - … Journal of Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Photovoltaic (PV) technology got much attention in the past few decades in developing
advanced and environment friendly solar cells (SCs). However, high cost, unstable nature …

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] Extracting the parameters of two-energy-level defects in silicon wafers using machine learning models

S Wang, B Wright, Y Zhu, Y Buratti, Z Hameiri - Solar Energy Materials and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study introduces a pioneering machine learning (ML)-based methodology to
characterise two-level defects in the bulk of silicon wafers. Bulk defects have a critical impact …

ITO/SiOx/n-Si heterojunction solar cell with bifacial 16.6%/14.6% front/rear efficiency produced by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis: Effect of conditions of SiOx growth by wet …

GG Untila, TN Kost, AB Chebotareva - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, ultrasonic spray pyrolysis has been used to produce bifacial ITO/SiO x/(nn+) Cz-
Si heterojunction solar cells by growing an ITO layer on monocrystalline n-type silicon. We …