Publications by Gaetano Parascandolo

Silicon oxide buffer layer at the p-i interface in amorphous and microcrystalline silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Grégory Bugnon, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Gaetano Parascandolo, Mathieu Charrière

The use of intrinsic silicon oxide as a buffer layer at the p-i interface of thin-film silicon solar cells is shown to provide significant advantages. For microcrystalline silicon solar cells, when associated with highly crystalline i-layers deposited at h ...

Elsevier2014

Silicon oxide buffer layer at the p-i interface in amorphous and microcrystalline silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Grégory Bugnon, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Gaetano Parascandolo, Fanny Sculati-Meillaud, Simon Hänni, Mathieu Charrière

The use of intrinsic silicon oxide as a buffer layer at the p-i interface of thin-film silicon solar cells is shown to provide significant advantages. For microcrystalline silicon solar cells, when associated with highly crystalline i-layers deposited at h ...

Elsevier2013

High-efficiency microcrystalline silicon single-junction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Jordi Escarre Palou, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Grégory Bugnon, Gaetano Parascandolo, Simon Hänni

This short communication highlights our latest results towards high-efficiency microcrystalline silicon single-junction solar cells. By combining adequate cell design with high-quality material, a new world record efficiency was achieved for single-junctio ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

New progress in the fabrication of n–i–p micromorph solar cells for opaque substrates

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Sylvain Nicolay, Grégory Bugnon, Laura Ding, Karin Söderström, Gaetano Parascandolo, Martial Duchamp, Simon Hänni, Céline Pahud, Rémi Biron

In thispaper,weinvestigatetandemamorphous/microcrystallinesiliconsolarcellswithasymmetric intermediatereflectorsgrowninthen–i–psubstrateconfiguration.Wecomparedifferenttypesof substrateswithrespecttotheirlight-trappingpropertiesaswellastheirinfluenceontheg ...

Elsevier2013

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, Jakub Holovsky, Gaetano Parascandolo, Peter Cuony, 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

Optimization of the Asymmetric Intermediate Reflector Morphology for High Stabilized Efficiency Thin n-i-p Micromorph Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Sylvain Nicolay, Grégory Bugnon, Laura Ding, Gaetano Parascandolo, Simon Hänni, Céline Pahud, Rémi Biron

This paper focuses on our latest progress in n-i-p thinmicromorph solar-cell fabrication using textured back reflectors and asymmetric intermediate reflectors, both deposited by lowpressure chemical vapor deposition of zinc oxide.We then present microcryst ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2012

Light Harvesting Schemes for High Efficiency Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Corsin Battaglia, Jordi Escarre Palou, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Sylvain Nicolay, Grégory Bugnon, Laura Ding, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Gaetano Parascandolo, Peter Cuony, Mathieu Charrière, Maximilien Joseph Marie Bonnet-Eymard

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

On the Interplay Between Microstructure and Interfaces in High-Efficiency Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Marco Cantoni, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Corsin Battaglia, Jordi Escarre Palou, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Sylvain Nicolay, Grégory Bugnon, Laura Ding, Gaetano Parascandolo, Peter Cuony, Simon Hänni

This paper gives new insights into the role of both the microstructure and the interfaces in microcrystalline silicon (μc- Si) single-junction solar cells. A 3-D tomographic reconstruction of a μc-Si solar cell reveals the 2-D nature of the porous zones, w ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2012

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

Optimization of thin film silicon solar cells on highly textured substrates

Christophe Ballif, Corsin Battaglia, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Grégory Bugnon, Thomas Söderström, Gaetano Parascandolo, Peter Cuony, Simon Hänni, Mathieu Charrière, Nils Linus Löfgren

Doped layers made of nanostructured silicon phases embedded in a silicon oxide matrix were implemented in thin film silicon solar cells. Their combination with optimized deposition processes for the silicon intrinsic layers is shown to allow for an increas ...

2011

Gaetano Parascandolo

Silicon oxide buffer layer at the p-i interface in amorphous and microcrystalline silicon solar cells

Silicon oxide buffer layer at the p-i interface in amorphous and microcrystalline silicon solar cells

High-efficiency microcrystalline silicon single-junction solar cells

New progress in the fabrication of n–i–p micromorph solar cells for opaque substrates

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

Optimization of the Asymmetric Intermediate Reflector Morphology for High Stabilized Efficiency Thin n-i-p Micromorph Solar Cells

Light Harvesting Schemes for High Efficiency Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells

On the Interplay Between Microstructure and Interfaces in High-Efficiency Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Multiple-junction photoelectric device and its production process

Optimization of thin film silicon solar cells on highly textured substrates

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