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Full-Area Passivating Contacts with High and Low Thermal Budgets: Solutions for High Efficiency c-Si Solar Cells

Gizem Nogay

Today more than 90% of the global PV market is covered by c-Si solar cells which are limited by recombination losses at the metal-semiconductor interface. This recombination path can be avoided by separating the metal from the c-Si wafer by introducing a b ...

EPFL2018

Nowadays the photovoltaics market is dominated by crystalline silicon solar cells, which are approaching their theoretical efficiency limit. Novel solutions have to be found for photovoltaics to further enhance its competitiveness with other energy sources ...

EPFL2018

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Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells have reached efﬁciencies above 25% in just about three years of development, mostly driven by the rapid progress made in the perovskite solar cell research ﬁeld. This review aims to give an overview of the achievements ...

2017

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The surge of the power conversion efficiency of metal halide lead perovskite solar cells comes with concerns, such as the long-term ecotoxicity of lead compounds, their sensitivity toward moisture and oxygen, or the scarcity of some of their components. Mo ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

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Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have immense potential for high power conversion efficiency with an ease of fabrication procedure. The fundamental understanding of interfacial kinetics in PSCs is crucial for further improving of their photovoltaic performanc ...

2017

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Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells are increasingly recognized as promi-sing candidates for next-generation photovoltaics with performance beyond the single-junction limit at potentially low production costs. Current designs for monolithic tandems rely ...

2017

Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cell with Cell Area >1 cm

Christophe Ballif, Arnaud Walter, Stefaan De Wolf, Björn Niesen, Jérémie Werner, Johannes Peter Seif, Luc Fesquet, Ching-Hsun Weng

Monolithic perovskite/crystalline silicon tandem solar cells hold great promise for further performance improvement of well-established silicon photovoltaics; however, monolithic tandem integration is challenging, evidenced by the modest performances and s ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Cyanine tandem and triple-junction solar cells

Roland Hany, Björn Niesen, Lei Wang, René Uwe Schneider, Hui Zhang

Ultrathin bilayer heterojunction solar cells using cyanine electron donors and electron acceptor C-60 are used to fabricate monolithically stacked tandem and triple junction devices. Sub-cell stack sequences as well as C-60 layer thicknesses are optimized ...

Elsevier2016

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Combining market-proven silicon solar cell technology with an efficient wide band gap top cell into a tandem device is an attractive approach to reduce the cost of photovoltaic systems. For this, perovskite solar cells are promising high-efficiency top cel ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Highly transparent modulated surface textured front electrodes for high-efficiency multijunction thin-film silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Etienne Antoine Julien Moulin, Hairen Tan

To further increase the efficiency of multijunction thin-film silicon (TF-Si) solar cells, it is crucial for the front electrode to have a good transparency and conduction, to provide efficient light trapping for each subcell, and to ensure a suitable morp ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015