Browsing by Author "Paviet-Salomon, B."
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22% Efficient Dopant-free Interdigitated Back Contact Silicon Solar Cells
Wu, W. L.; Lin, W. J.; Zhong, S. H.; Paviet-Salomon, B.; Despeisse, M.; Liang, Z. C.; et al. (2018)In this study, we present dopant-free back contact heterojunction silicon solar cells employing MoOx and MgFx based stacks as hole-and electron-selective contacts deposited using a thermal evaporation process at low ... -
Aluminium-Doped Zinc Oxide Rear Reflectors for High-Efficiency Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
Senaud, L.-L.; Christmann, G.; Descoeudres, A.; Geissbuhler, J.; Barraud, L.; Badel, N.; Allebe, C.; Nicolay, S.; Despeisse, M.; Paviet-Salomon, B.; Ballif, C. (2019)This contribution demonstrates an improved infrared response of the rear reflector of monofacial silicon heterojunction solar cells using aluminium-doped zinc oxide (AZO) in lieu of indium tin oxide (ITO) in the back ... -
Dopant-Free Back-Contacted Silicon Solar Cells with an Efficiency of 22.1%
Wu, W.; Lin, W.; Zhong, S. H.; Paviet-Salomon, B.; Despeisse, M.; Jeangros, Q.; et al. (2020-04) -
Engineering of Thin-Film Silicon Materials for High Efficiency Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells
Despeisse, M.; Barraud, L.; Paviet-Salomon, B.; Descoeudres, A.; Senaud, L. L.; Allebe, C.; et al. (2018)Thin-film silicon layers deposited in parallel-plate PECVD reactors can be produced with varying microstructure, composition and properties, depending on deposition process conditions and on the underlying substrate ... -
Fully textured monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 25.2% power conversion efficiency
Sahli, F.; Werner, J.; Kamino, B. A.; Brauninger, M.; Monnard, R.; Paviet-Salomon, B.; et al. (2018)Tandem devices combining perovskite and silicon solar cells are promising candidates to achieve power conversion efficiencies above 30% at reasonable costs. State-of-the-art monolithic two-terminal perovskite/silicon tandem ... -
Improved Optics in Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells with a Nanocrystalline Silicon Recombination Junction
Sahli, F.; Kamino, B. A.; Werner, J.; Brauninger, M.; Paviet-Salomon, B.; Barraud, L.; et al. (2018)Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells are increasingly recognized as promising candidates for next-generation photovoltaics with performance beyond the single-junction limit at potentially low production costs. Current ... -
Interdigitated back contact silicon heterojunction solar cells featuring an interband tunnel junction enabling simplified processing
Paviet-Salomon, B.; Tomasi, A.; Lachenal, D.; Badel, N.; Christmann, G.; Barraud, L.; et al. (2018)This paper reports on the development of an innovative back-contacted crystalline silicon solar cell with passivating contacts featuring an interband tunnel junction at its electron-collecting contacts. In this novel ... -
Low-Temperature Screen-Printed Metallization for the Scale-Up of Two-Terminal Perovskite-Silicon Tandems
Kamino, B. A.; Paviet-Salomon, B.; Moon, S. J.; Badel, N.; Levrat, J.; Christmann, G.; et al. (2019)Tandem photovoltaic devices based on perovskite and crystalline silicon (PK/c-Si) absorbers have the potential to push commercial silicon single junction devices beyond their current efficiency limit. However, their scale-up ... -
Metallization of Si heterojunction solar cells by nanosecond laser ablation and Ni-Cu plating
Dabirian, A.; Lachowicz, A.; Schuttauf, J. W.; Paviet-Salomon, B.; Morales-Masis, M.; Hessler-Wyser, A.; et al. (2017)A key step in industrialization of photovoltaics (PV) is the development of low-cost and large-area metallization processes to substitute the standard screen-printing process of silver paste. Thus Cu and Ni metallization ... -
New guidelines for a more accurate extraction of solar cells and modules key data from their current-voltage curves
Paviet-Salomon, B.; Levrat, J.; Fakhfouri, V.; Pelet, Y.; Rebeaud, N.; Despeisse, M.; et al. (2017)This paper investigates the optimisation of the fit procedures to determine with the highest accuracy the key data of photovoltaic cells and modules from their current-voltage characteristics. Our analysis is based on ... -
Simple processing of back-contacted silicon heterojunction solar cells using selective-area crystalline growth
Tomasi, A.; Paviet-Salomon, B.; Jeangros, Q.; Haschke, J.; Christmann, G.; Barraud, L.; et al. (2017)For crystalline-silicon solar cells, voltages close to the theoretical limit are nowadays readily achievable when using passivating contacts. Conversely, maximal current generation requires the integration of the electron ... -
The versatility of passivating carrier-selective silicon thin films for diverse high-efficiency screen-printed heterojunction-based solar cells
Descoeudres, A.; Horzel, J.; Paviet-Salomon, B.; Senaud, L. L.; Christmann, G.; Geissbuhler, J.; et al. (2020-02)