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Temperature dependence of hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cell performances

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Yannick Samuel Riesen

Thin-film hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar (a-Si:H) cells are known to have better temperature coefficients than crystalline silicon cells. To investigate whether a-Si:H cells that are optimized for standard conditions (STC) also have the highest energ ...

American Institute of Physics2016

Strategies for Doped Nanocrystalline Silicon Integration in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Antoine Descoeudres, Jonas Geissbühler, Stefaan De Wolf, Gizem Nogay, Martial Duchamp, Johannes Peter Seif, Simon Hänni, Martin Ledinsky, Niels Holm

Carrier collection in silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells is usually achieved by doped amorphous silicon layers of a few nanometers, deposited at opposite sides of the crystalline silicon wafer. These layers are often defect-rich, resulting in modest ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

The boron-tailing myth in hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Grégory Bugnon, Michael Elias Stückelberger

The boron-tailing effect in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) solar cells describes the reduced charge collection specifically in the blue part of the spectrum for absorber layers deposited above a critical temperature. This effect limits the device ...

American Institute of Physics2015

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon

Michael Elias Stückelberger

Thin-film silicon solar cells are one possible answer to the increasing energy demand of today. Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) plays a crucial role therein - as absorber layers, but also as doped layers to build p-i -n junctions. This thesis is de ...

EPFL2014

We examine damage-free transparent-electrode deposition to fabricate high-efficiency amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells. Such solar cells usually feature sputtered transparent electrodes, the deposition of which may damage the ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Amorphous silicon enhanced metal-insulator-semiconductor contacts for silicon solar cells

Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Stefaan De Wolf, Bénédicte Demaurex

Carrier recombination at the metal-semiconductor contacts has become a significant obstacle to the further advancement of high-efficiency diffused-junction silicon solar cells. This paper provides the proof-of-concept of a procedure to reduce contact recom ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Low-Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposited Zinc Oxide Films

Laura Ding

Polycrystalline zinc oxide (ZnO) films, prepared by low-pressure chemical vapor deposition are investigated in this thesis. ZnO belongs to the class of transparent conductive oxide materials, as it is transparent to light from the visible to the near-infra ...

EPFL2013

This thesis investigates the link between the plasma deposition conditions and microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) material quality for thin-film silicon photovoltaic applications. The role of interfaces and the μc-Si:H material quality on the device perfor ...

EPFL2013

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Several amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) deposition conditions have been reported to produce films that degrade least under light soaking when incorporated into a-Si:H solar cells. However, a systematic comparison of these a-Si:H materials has never been present ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Coupling light into thin silicon layers for high-efficiency solar cells

Karin Söderström

Thin-film solar cells based on amorphous and microcrystalline silicon require thin photoactive layers to ensure a satisfactory collection of the photogenerated carriers. The small thickness is advantageous in terms of raw material consumption and industria ...

EPFL2013