Publications by Silvia Martin de Nicolas Agut

Amorphous/Crystalline Silicon Interface Stability: Correlation between Infrared Spectroscopy and Electronic Passivation Properties

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Jakub Holovsky, Silvia Martin de Nicolas Agut

Ultrathin layers of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H), passivating the surface of crystalline silicon (c-Si), are key enablers for high-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells. In this work, the authors apply highly sensitive attenuated total r ...

WILEY2020

Pristine dwarf galaxy survey - I. A detailed photometric and spectroscopic study of the very metal-poor Draco II satellite

Pascale Jablonka, Silvia Martin de Nicolas Agut, Nicolas Lawrence Etienne Longeard

We present a detailed study of the faint Milky Way satellite Draco II (Dra II) from deep CFHT/MegaCam broad-band g and i photometry and narrow-band metallicity-sensitive CaliK observations, along with follow-up Keck II/DEIMOS multi-object spectroscopy. For ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2018

The Pristine survey IV: approaching the Galactic metallicity floor with the discovery of an ultra-metal-poor star

Pascale Jablonka, Carmela Lardo, Nicolas Lawrence Etienne Longeard, Marc Gentile, Silvia Martin de Nicolas Agut

The early Universe presented a star formation environment that was almost devoid of heavy elements. The lowest metallicity stars thus provide a unique window into the earliest Galactic stages, but are exceedingly rare and difficult to find. Here, we presen ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2018

Transparent Electrodes in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Influence on Contact Passivation

Christophe Ballif, Florent Sahli, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Sylvain Nicolay, Stefaan De Wolf, Johannes Peter Seif, Andrea Tomasi, Lorenzo Fanni, Björn Niesen, Loris Barraud

Charge carrier collection in silicon heterojunction solar cells occurs via intrinsic/doped hydrogenated amorphous silicon layer stacks deposited on the crystalline silicon wafer surfaces. Usually, both the electron and hole collecting stacks are externally ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Back-Contacted Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells With Efficiency >21%

Christophe Ballif, Antoine Descoeudres, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Jonas Geissbühler, Stefaan De Wolf, Andrea Tomasi, Silvia Martin de Nicolas Agut

We report on the fabrication of back-contacted silicon heterojunction solar cells with conversion efficiencies above 21%. Our process technology relies solely on simple and size-scalable patterning methods, with no high-temperature steps. Using in situ sha ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014