Olindo Isabella

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a very short introduction to the physics and technology of solar energy and renewable energy conversion from solar cells to the grid, including the physics of thin-film solar cells.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that the improved scattering properties result from a superposition of different light scattering mechanisms caused by the different geometrical features integrated in a modulated surface texture.

TL;DR: In this paper, the development status of high-efficiency crystalline silicon (c-Si) heterojunction solar cells, from the materials to devices, mainly including hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) based silicon heterjunction technology, polycrystalline silicon based carrier selective passivating contact technology, metal compounds and organic materials based dopant-free contact technology are reviewed.

TL;DR: In this paper, an advanced metal-free light-trapping scheme for crystalline silicon wafers was proposed, where at the front side of the wafer, a nanotexture known as black-silicon was applied and at the rear side, a random pyramidal texture coated with a distributed Bragg reflector was designed to exhibit a maximized omnidirectional internal rear reflectance.

TL;DR: In this article, a carrier-selective passivating contact for poly-crystalline silicon (poly-Si) was proposed for c-Si solar cells based on an interdigitated back contact (IBC) architecture.