Carrier population control and surface passivation in solar cells
Andres Cuevas,Yimao Wan,Di Yan,Christian Samundsett,Thomas Allen,Xinyu Zhang,Jie Cui,James Bullock +7 more
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In this article, different approaches to suppress surface recombination and to manipulate the concentration of charge carriers by means of doping, work function and charge are discussed, as well as some of the many surface-passivating contacts that are being developed for silicon solar cells.About:
This article is published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells.The article was published on 2018-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 102 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Charge carrier & Passivation.read more
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Design Principles of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells with Dopant‐Free Interdigitated Back Contacts
Zhenhai Yang,Zhenhai Yang,Hao Lin,Jiang Sheng,Xi Yang,Wei Wang,Kuan W.A. Chee,Kuan W.A. Chee,Pingqi Gao,Jichun Ye +9 more
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Study of Surface Passivation and Charge Transport Barriers in DASH Solar Cell
Ramachandran Ammapet Vijayan,Sangaravadivel Masilamani,Shanmugam Kailasam,Kumar Shivam,Balamurugan Deenadhayalan,Muthubalan Varadharajaperumal +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the surface passivation and charge transport mechanism using Sentaurus TCAD was studied for asymmetric heterocontact solar cells. But the authors only considered the hole and electron contact.
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Heterostructure Silicon Solar Cells with Enhanced Power Conversion Efficiency Based on Six/Ni3+ Self-Doped NiOx Passivating Contact
TL;DR: In this paper , a Ni3+ self-doped NiOx film is obtained by tuning the reactive oxygen atmosphere to construct the optimized c-Si/NiOx heterostructure band alignment.
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Progress with passivation and screen-printed metallization of Boron-doped monoPoly™ layers
TL;DR: In this article , the doping, passivation and contact properties of boron-doped polysilicon (poly-Si) layers are analyzed to understand the two key limiting factors for industrial adoption of p+ poly-Si based passivated contacts: challenges with diffusion and challenges with screen printed, fire-through (FT) metallization.
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Concentrator In2O3:F/(n+pp+)c-Si/Al solar cells with Al-alloyed BSF and Ag-free multi-wire metallization using transparent conductive polymers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors have developed high efficiency low concentrator crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells using the standard SiNx/(n+pp+) c-Si/Al structures with a P-doped n+-emitter and screen-printed Al-alloyed Al-p+ back-surface-field (BSF).
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