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Jean Cattin

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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, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, 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 ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

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

Christophe Ballif, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Matthieu Despeisse, 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 ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Transferability of the light-soaking benefits on silicon heterojunction cells to modules

Christophe Ballif, Jonas Geissbühler, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jean Cattin

We investigate the effect of light soaking and forward electric bias treatment on SHJ solar cells and modules, and in particular the influence of the thermal treatment occurring during lamination. A substantial performance increase is observed after electr ...

2021

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

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 ...

2020

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

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

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

Impact of the Oxygen Content on the Optoelectronic Properties of the Indium-Tin-Oxide Based Transparent Electrodes for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Jean Cattin, Brahim Aissa, Akshath Raghu Shetty

Amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells technology is attracting tremendous attention in recent years due to its potential to achieve high power conversion efficiencies at low fabrication temperatures and using few process steps. How ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Paths for maximal light incoupling and excellent electrical performances in silicon heterojunction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Monica Morales Masis, Jan Haschke, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jean Cattin, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Raphaël Monnard, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Olivier Denis Dupré, Angela Nicole Fioretti, Sihua Zhong

We discuss here optical losses in silicon heterojunction solar cells and strategies to minimize them. Optical losses originate from most non-crystalline-silicon layers involved in the solar cell. A breakdown for typical values is shown evidencing that supp ...

IEEE2019

Impact of the Oxygen Flow during the Magnetron Sputtering Deposition on the Indium Tin Oxide thin films for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Jean Cattin, Brahim Aissa, Akshath Raghu Shetty

We report on the optoelectronic properties of ITO layers deposited by DC sputtering, using different oxygen to total flow ratios [r(O-2) = O-2/Ar, ranging from 1% to 8%], for silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell application. The depth profiling of the v ...

IEEE2019

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