Publications by Julie Amandine Dreon

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

Carrier-selective contacts using metal compounds for crystalline silicon solar cells

Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Julie Amandine Dreon

Solar cells rely on the efficient generation of electrons and holes and the subsequent collection of these photoexcited charge carriers at spatially separated electrodes. High wafer quality is now commonplace for crystalline silicon (c-Si) based solar cell ...

WILEY2023

Molybdenum oxide as a case study for the diagnosis of carrier selective contacts in silicon heterojunction solar cells

Julie Amandine Dreon

Environmental challenges impose a rapid energy transition. The renewable power capacity is expected to increase by 50% in the next 5 years, and recent scenarios plan that photovoltaics (PV) will be leading the new energy sources. Combining high efficiencie ...

EPFL2022

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

Contact Resistivity Measurements and their Applicability for Accurate Series Resistance Breakdown in Heterojunction Solar Cell

Christophe Ballif, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Deniz Türkay, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Lison Sylou Marthey, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Julie Amandine Dreon

In this work, we use several approaches to perform accurate Series Resistance (R-S) breakdown of a state of the art 2 cm x 2 cm screen-printed solar cell reaching 82.5% FF. On the one hand, Haschke et al.'s model for the lateral transport through the cell, ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2022

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

Temperature‐dependent performance of silicon heterojunction solar cells with transition‐metal‐oxide‐based selective contacts

Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Julie Amandine Dreon

The temperature coefficient (TC) is an essential figure of merit to accurately evaluate solar cell performance at various operating temperatures and hence enabling the comparison between different cell technologies. Recently, solar cells that use passivati ...

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

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