Towards the 10‐Year Milestone of Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Z Ying, X Yang, X Wang, J Ye - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell represents one of the most promising avenues for
exceeding the Shockley–Queisser limit for single‐junction solar cells at a reasonable cost …

Oxygen vacancies in tungsten oxide and their influence on tungsten oxide/silicon heterojunction solar cells

M Mews, L Korte, B Rech - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2016 - Elsevier
Tungsten oxide (WO x) can be incorporated into amorphous/crystalline silicon
heterojunction solar cells as hole contact and for interface modification between p-type …

An artificial-intelligence-assisted investigation on the potential of black silicon nanotextures for silicon solar cells

S Wang, T Xie, R Liang, Y Zhang, FJ Ma… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Black silicon (b-Si) nanotextures are of interest for Si solar cells because of their enhanced
light trapping properties. However, the wide range of complex nanotextured b-Si surface …

[HTML][HTML] Thin-Film Technologies for Sustainable Building-Integrated Photovoltaics

AR Smith, M Ghamari, S Velusamy, S Sundaram - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the incorporation of thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) technologies in
building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and their contribution to sustainable architecture …

Valence band alignment and hole transport in amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells

M Mews, M Liebhaber, B Rech, L Korte - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
To investigate the hole transport across amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunctions, solar
cells with varying band offsets were fabricated using amorphous silicon suboxide films. The …

Textured p-type crystalline silicon surfaces obtained by multi-step plasma process for SHJ solar cells

ML Addonizio, A Antonaia - Vacuum, 2023 - Elsevier
P-type monocrystalline silicon wafers were textured by means of a multi-step plasma etching
technique with the aim of greatly reducing their reflectance and effectively exploiting the …

High‐efficiency black silicon interdigitated back contacted solar cells on p‐type and n‐type c‐Si substrates

P Ortega, E Calle, G von Gastrow… - Progress in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This work demonstrates the high potential of Al2O3 passivated black silicon in high‐
efficiency interdigitated back contacted (IBC) solar cells by reducing surface reflectance …

Role of wet chemical saw damage removal process in texturing of c-Si and performance of a-Si: H/c-Si heterojunction solar cells

S Bhattacharya, A Pandey, J Panigrahi, S Mandal… - Applied Physics A, 2023 - Springer
Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells' performance primarily depends on silicon surface
conditioning. Therefore, it is necessary to control the uniformity of the textured silicon surface …

Effective passivation of black silicon surfaces via plasma‐enhanced chemical vapor deposition grown conformal hydrogenated amorphous silicon layer

E Özkol, P Procel, Y Zhao, L Mazzarella… - physica status solidi …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Solar cells based on black silicon (b‐Si) are proven to be promising in photovoltaics (PVs)
by exceeding 22% efficiency. To reach high efficiencies with b‐Si surfaces, the most crucial …

Effects of the micro-structure of arc-shaped groove, rectangular groove and semicircle-based rectangular groove on the reflectance of silicon solar cell

Y Wu, L Zhang, P Ge, Y Gao, W Bi - Solar Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Light trapping structure in silicon solar cells can produce multi-reflectance of light and
improve light absorption. In order to study the effects of micro-structure with different …