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Loss Analysis of a 24.4%-Efficient Front-Junction Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell and Opportunity for Localized Contacts

Christophe Ballif, Deniz Türkay, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jean Cattin, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte

Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells have recently reached power conversion efficiencies above 25% with various device architectures and with industrial size (>200 cm(2)) wafers. Yet, for an accurate assessment of the efficiency potential and further d ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Influence of the Dopant Gas Precursor in P-Type Nanocrystalline Silicon Layers on the Performance of Front Junction Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Jan Haschke, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jean Cattin, Julie Amandine Dreon, Mario Joe Lehmann, Vincent Philippe Paratte

Silicon heterojunction solar cells can employ p-type hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon nc-Si:H(p) on their front side, since these can provide better transparency and contact resistance compared to hydrogenated p-type amorphous silicon layers. We invest ...

2021

Influence of Light Soaking on Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells With Various Architectures

Christophe Ballif, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Matthieu Despeisse, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Jean Cattin

In this article, we investigate the effect of prolonged light exposure on silicon heterojunction solar cells. We show that, although light exposure systematically improves solar cell efficiency in the case of devices using intrinsic and p-type layers with ...

2021

Dopant-Free Bifacial Silicon Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jean Cattin, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Sihua Zhong, Wenjie Lin, Hui Shen

Herein, challenges in the fabrication of full dopant-free bifacial silicon solar cells are discussed and efficient devices utilizing a MoO3/ indium tin oxide (ITO)/Ag hole-selective contact and ZnO/LiFx/Al electron-selective contacts with up to 79% short-c ...

2021

Performance Limitations and Analysis of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells Using Ultra-Thin MoOx Hole-Selective Contacts

Christophe Ballif, Gabriel Christmann, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jean Cattin, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte

We recently showed that silicon heterojunction solar cell with MoOx-based hole-selective contact could reach 23.5% in efficiency with MoOx layers of 4 nm. Such thin MoOx layer enables a considerable current-density gain of over 1 mA/cm(2) compared to the u ...

2021

Hole-Selective Front Contact Stack Enabling 24.1%-Efficient Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Matthieu Despeisse, Sylvain Nicolay, Jan Haschke, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jean Cattin, Julie Amandine Dreon

The window-layer stack limits the efficiency of both-side-contacted silicon heterojunction solar cells. We discuss here the combination of several modifications to this stack to improve its optoelectronic performance. These include the introduction of a na ...

2020

Characterisation of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells Beyond Standard Test Conditions

Jean Cattin

The global photovoltaic market is mostly dominated by solar cells based on crystalline silicon (c-Si), which are covering 95% of the market. This thesis concerns silicon heterojunction (SHJ), a high-efficiency technology with a 2% market share in 2018, but ...

EPFL2020

23.5%-efficient silicon heterojunction silicon solar cell using molybdenum oxide as hole-selective contact

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jean Cattin, Julie Amandine Dreon

Elsevier2020

Comparative Field Performance Assessment of Bifacial Solar Modules

Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jean Cattin, Olivier Denis Dupré

A full-scale pilot line for producing bifacial solar modules based on silicon heterojunction technology was set up as part of the European H2020 AMPERE project. In this study, the measurements from two outdoor test benches were used to evaluate the perform ...

IEEE2020

Influence of local surface defects on the minority-carrier lifetime of passivating-contact solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Jean Cattin

Unlocking the full potential of passivating contacts, increasingly popular in the silicon solar cell industry, requires determining the minority carrier lifetime. Minor passivation drops limit the functioning of solar cells; however, they are not detected ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2020