Publications by Vincent Philippe Paratte

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

Integration of thin n-type nc-Si:H layers in the window-multilayer stack of heterojunction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Corentin Yann Sthioul

N-type nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H(n)) layers are good candidates to improve current and transport properties in heterojunction solar cells. In this work, we perform thickness series alongside PH3 doping series to unravel the desirable characteristics ...

ELSEVIER2022

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

ZnSnxGe1-xN2 as electron-selective contact for silicon heterojunction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Julien Hurni, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Davi Marcelo Fébba

This work reports the electrical characterization of ZnSnxGe1-xN2 (ZTGN) layers deposited on glass by sputtering and further assesses for the first time the performance of SHJ solar cells featuring them as electron-selective contacts. Bandgap, conductivity ...

IEEE2021

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

Effects of work function and electron affinity on the performance of carrier-selective contacts in silicon solar cells using $ZnSn_{x}Ge_{1-x}N_{2}$ as a case study

Christophe Ballif, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Julien Hurni, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Davi Marcelo Fébba

2021

Effects of Work Function and Electron Affinity on the Performance of Carrier-Selective Contacts in Silicon Solar Cells Using ZnSnx Ge-1 (-) N-x(2) as a Case Study

Christophe Ballif, Julien Hurni, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte

This work reports the electrical characterization of ZnSnx Ge1 - xN2 (ZTGN) layers (10% < x < 90%) deposited on glass by combinatorial sputtering and further assesses the performance of silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells featuring them as electron-se ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

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

Degradation Mechanism and Stability Improvement of Dopant-Free ZnO/LiFx/Al Electron Nanocontacts in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Wenjie Lin, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Sihua Zhong

Dopant-free passivating contacts for photovoltaics have the potential to be deposited at low costs, while providing excellent surface passivation and low contact resistance. However, one pressing issue of dopant-free carrier selective contacts is their low ...

2020