Sihua Zhong

TL;DR: Recent progress in the suppression of carrier recombination in silicon nanostructures is reviewed, with the emphasis on the optimization of surface morphology and controllable nanostructure height and emitter doping concentration, as well as application of dielectric passivation coatings, providing design rules to realize high-efficiency nanstructured silicon solar cells on a large scale.

TL;DR: In this article, an optimized textured structure is a key for high efficiency multi-crystalline silicon solar cell, and the surface morphology, reflectance and internal quantum efficiency have been investigated by atomic force microscope, spectrophotometer and quantum efficiency measurement system.

TL;DR: In this paper, Vincent Paratte and Christophe Allebe from CSEM were employed for amorphous silicon preparation and high-quality wet-processing and metallization, respectively, and this project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No. 727523 (NextBase).

TL;DR: In this paper, a metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) technique was employed to eliminate the saw marks and realize effective surface textures on diamond wire sawn (DWS) multi-crystalline silicon (mc-Si) wafers, including nano-texture, micro-texture and nano/micro-texture (N/M-T).

TL;DR: In this article, a novel solar cell structure consisting of both homojunction and heterojunction (homo-hetero junctions), which possesses a potential to realize high photoelectric conversion efficiency, is investigated by the numerical simulation tool AFORS-HET.