Stable Electron‐Selective Contacts for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells Enabling Efficiency over 21.6%
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DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202005554
Abstract: Crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cells featuring carrier‐selective passivating contacts have become a prominent path to develop highly efficient photovoltaic devices. Development of electron‐selective materials that can provide excellent surface passivation and low contact resistivity to… read more here.
Keywords: crystalline silicon; silicon solar; efficiency; electron selective ... See more keywords
Dopant‐Free and Carrier‐Selective Heterocontacts for Silicon Solar Cells: Recent Advances and Perspectives
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DOI: 10.1002/advs.201700547
Abstract: Abstract By combining the most successful heterojunctions (HJ) with interdigitated back contacts, crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cells (SCs) have recently demonstrated a record efficiency of 26.6%. However, such SCs still introduce optical/electrical losses and technological… read more here.
Keywords: dopant free; silicon solar; carrier selective; hole selective ... See more keywords
MoOx/Ag/MoOx multilayers as hole transport transparent conductive electrodes for n‐type crystalline silicon solar cells
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DOI: 10.1002/er.5145
Abstract: Substitution of highly doped layers with conventional transparent conductive electrodes as carrier collecting and selective contacts in conventional crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cell configurations is crucial in increasing affordability of solar cells by lowering material… read more here.
Keywords: crystalline silicon; transparent conductive; silicon solar; conductive electrodes ... See more keywords
A Novel Ultra-Low Work Function TbFx for High Efficiency Dopant-Free Silicon Solar Cells.
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DOI: 10.1002/smll.202300879
Abstract: The ability of carrier selective contact is mainly determined by the surface passivation and work function for dopant-free materials applied in crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, which have received considerable attention in recent years. In… read more here.
Keywords: solar cells; work function; silicon solar;
Comparative study on the effect of magnetic field on the photocurrent density of organic, dye-sensitized and silicon solar cells
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DOI: 10.1007/s10854-019-02078-2
Abstract: The effect of magnetic field on the photocurrent generation of three main types of solar cells with entirely different structures, i.e., organic, dye-sensitized and silicon solar cells, is investigated. The magnetic field effect on photocurrent… read more here.
Keywords: dye sensitized; silicon solar; sensitized silicon; magnetic field ... See more keywords
An investigation on determinants of silver paste metallization contact performance on crystalline silicon solar cells
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DOI: 10.1007/s10854-020-03145-9
Abstract: Since the application of silver (Ag) electrodes is of vital importance to the power output of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, the factors affecting Ag paste metallization contact performance on Si wafers need to get… read more here.
Keywords: crystalline silicon; paste; silicon solar; performance ... See more keywords
Efficiency enhancement of silicon solar cells by silicon quantum dots embedded in ZnO films as down-shifting coating
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DOI: 10.1007/s10854-020-04576-0
Abstract: In the present work, the incorporation of silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) in zinc oxide (ZnO) films to develop coatings that improve the efficiency of silicon solar cells is reported. The down-shifting conversion of the SiQDs… read more here.
Keywords: zno; silicon solar; zno films; efficiency ... See more keywords
Efficiency enhancement of an ultra-thin film silicon solar cell using conical-shaped nanoparticles: similar to superposition (top, middle, and bottom)
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DOI: 10.1007/s11082-020-02487-2
Abstract: The use of conical-shaped plasmonic nanostructures for light management in an ultra-thin silicon solar cell has been investigated. The optical absorption and hence photocurrent are obtained for several cases of structures using finite difference time… read more here.
Keywords: ultra thin; solar cell; conical shaped; silicon solar ... See more keywords
Efficiency Enhancement of an Ultra-Thin Silicon Solar Cell Using Plasmonic Coupled Core-Shell Nanoparticles
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DOI: 10.1007/s11468-018-0891-3
Abstract: Enhancement of the optical absorption in ultra-thin silicon solar cells is more important. In this work, plasmonic nanostructures are used inside the active layer to improve the absorption and hence photocurrent of a thin silicon… read more here.
Keywords: thin silicon; solar cell; coupled nanoparticles; silicon solar ... See more keywords
Effect of obliquity of incident light on the performance of silicon solar cells
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DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01965
Abstract: The aim of this work is to investigate the effect of angle of incident light on the performance of silicon solar cell. In this regard, numerical calculations have been performed to obtain the reflectance for… read more here.
Keywords: silicon solar; light performance; incident light; performance silicon ... See more keywords
Optimal design of quadruple-layer antireflection coating structure for conversion efficiency enhancement in crystalline silicon solar cells
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2017.12.024
Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we employed a quadruple-layer antireflection coating structure with Al2O3 deposited by DC reactive magnetron sputtering and SiO2 deposited by PECVD (plasma enhanced chemical vapor) deposition as the bottom layer, and proposed… read more here.
Keywords: quadruple layer; layer antireflection; silicon solar; antireflection coatings ... See more keywords