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Positive energy building with PV facade production and electrical storage designed by the Swiss team for the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2017

Peter Cuony, Philippe Couty, Victor Saadé

In the framework of the Solar Decathlon 2017 in Denver, Colorado, the Swiss team will propose a community house powered by solar energy and smart grid interaction Thanks to an integrated design with multi-oriented facades, which were boosted by customized ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Light Harvesting Schemes for High Efficiency Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Corsin Battaglia, Matthieu Despeisse, Jordi Escarre Palou, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Sylvain Nicolay, Laura Ding, Gaetano Parascandolo, Grégory Bugnon, Peter Cuony

In Thin Film Silicon (TF-Si) solar cells light harvesting schemes must guarantee an efficient light trapping in the thin absorber layers without decreasing the silicon layers quality and consecutively the p-i-n diodes electrical performance. TF-Si solar ce ...

Ieee2012

Multiple-junction photoelectric device and its production process

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Gaetano Parascandolo, Peter Cuony

The present invention relates to a multiple-junction photoelectric device comprising, in sequence, a substrate (4), a first conducting layer (2), at least two elementary photoelectric devices (6, 10), at least one of said elementary photoelectric devices ( ...

2012

A New View of Microcrystalline Silicon: The Role of Plasma Processing in Achieving a Dense and Stable Absorber Material for Photovoltaic Applications

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Grégory Bugnon, Thomas Söderström, Gaetano Parascandolo, Peter Cuony, Jakub Holovsky, Simon Hänni

To further lower production costs and increase conversion efficiency of thin-film silicon solar modules, challenges are the deposition of high-quality microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) at an increased rate and on textured substrates that guarantee efficie ...

2012

Optical Layers for Thin-film Silicon Solar Cells

Peter Cuony

In this work we develop and analyze optical layers for use in Micromorph solar cells, a tandem configuration with an amorphous silicon top cell and a microcrystalline silicon bottom cell. The morphology of the front electrode has a decisive role in maximiz ...

EPFL2011

Nanoscale Analysis by EFTEM and FIB-Tomography for Optimization of Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Marco Cantoni, Sylvain Nicolay, Peter Cuony

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press2010

Resistive interlayer for improved performance of thin film silicon solar cells on highly textured substrate

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Grégory Bugnon, Andrea Feltrin, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Peter Cuony, Adrian Billet

The deposition of thin-film silicon solar cells on highly textured substrates results in improved light trapping in the cell. However, the growth of silicon layers on rough substrates can often lead to undesired current drains, degrading performance and re ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2010

ZnO Transparent conductive oxide for thin film silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Sylvain Nicolay, Grégory Bugnon, Sylvie Faÿ, Andrea Feltrin, Peter Cuony, Thomas Söderström

There is general agreement that the future production of electric energy has to be renewable and sustainable in the long term. Photovoltaic (PV) is booming with more than 7GW produced in 2008 and will therefore play an important role in the future electric ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2010