Review of the potential of the Ni/Cu plating technique for crystalline silicon solar cells

AU Rehman, SH Lee - Materials, 2014 - mdpi.com
Developing a better method for the metallization of silicon solar cells is integral part of
realizing superior efficiency. Currently, contact realization using screen printing is the …

Review of Ni‐Cu based front side metallization for c‐Si solar cells

MC Raval, CS Solanki - Journal of Solar Energy, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Given the high percentage of metal cost in cell processing and concerns due to increasing
Ag prices, alternative metallization schemes are being considered. Ni‐Cu based front side …

18.45%‐Efficient multi‐crystalline silicon solar cells with novel nanoscale pseudo‐pyramid texture

X Ye, S Zou, K Chen, J Li, J Huang… - Advanced functional …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon‐based cells could convert more solar energy to electrical energy if the cells could
absorb more light. However, the nanostructured cells have demonstrated relatively low …

Bifacial p-type PERC solar cell with efficiency over 22% using laser doped selective emitter

C Zhang, H Shen, L Sun, J Yang, S Wu, Z Lu - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we report one bifacial p-type PERC solar cell with efficiency over 22% using
laser doped selective emitter produced in larger-scale commercial line on 6-inch mono …

POCl3 diffusion for industrial Si solar cell emitter formation

H Li, K Kim, B Hallam, B Hoex, S Wenham, M Abbott - Frontiers in Energy, 2017 - Springer
POCl 3 diffusion is currently the de facto standard method for industrial n-type emitter
fabrication. In this study, we present the impact of the following processing parameters on …

11.5% efficiency of TiO 2 protected and Pt catalyzed n+ np+-Si photocathodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting: manipulating the Pt distribution and Pt/Si …

Z Yin, R Fan, G Huang, M Shen - Chemical communications, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
11.5% efficiency of TiO 2 protected and Pt catalyzed n + np + -Si photocathodes for
photoelectrochemical water splitting: manipulating the Pt distribu ... - Chemical Communications …

Improving the Short-Wavelength Spectral Response of Silicon Solar Cells by Spray Deposition of YVO4 :Eu3+ Downshifting Phosphor Nanoparticles

N Chander, SK Sardana, PK Parashar… - IEEE Journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Europium-doped yttrium vanadate downshifting phosphor nanoparticles (NPs) have been
coated on top of monocrystalline silicon solar cells, having efficiency more than 15%, by a …

Review on metallization in crystalline silicon solar cells

N Balaji, MC Raval, S Saravanan - Solar Cells, 2020 - books.google.com
Solar cell market is led by silicon photovoltaics and holds around 92% of the total market.
Silicon solar cell fabrication process involves several critical steps which affects cell …

Laser-doped metal-plated bifacial silicon solar cells

X Wang, V Allen, V Vais, Y Zhao, B Tjahjono… - Solar energy materials …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper we report on the fabrication of laser-doped p-type bifacial cells using self-
aligned metal-plating with energy conversion efficiencies as high as 19.2%. A key …

Au-nanoparticles doped SiO2 interfacial layer to promote the photovoltaic characteristics of Au/p-Si/Al solar cells

AM Nawar, MM Makhlouf - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Au/Au (NPs) doped SiO 2/p-Si/Al heterojunction solar cell was achieved. The
interfacial insulator layer of SiO 2 was, successfully, grown on p-Si (111) wafer using the …