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Sluijs, Peer (author)Thin-film amorphous Silicon (a-Si) technology has been up and coming in recent years in order to achieve an efficiency comparable to crystalline Silicon (c-Si). Although the technology has existed for quite some time, it has not been researched as much as its crystalline counterpart, especially not in the hotspot reliability sector. The hotspot...master thesis 2023
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Zheng, Yi (author)Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell technology is one of the most promising PV technologies because of its high power conversion efficiencies, simple fabrication process and low manufacturing cost. The current world record efficiency of SHJ solar cell reaches up to 26.81%. SHJ solar cell produces the highest VOC over 750 mV among the c-Si...master thesis 2023
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Ghayeni, Seyed Mehdi (author)Thin-film silicon solar cells are an innovative approach to utilizing solar energy. Thanks to their flexibility, lower material usage, and production cost, they have the potential to be used in a range of applications. The conversion efficiencies of thin-film silicon solar cells need to be improved to make them commercially viable. This involves...master thesis 2023
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Muthaiyan Karthikeyen, Shriram (author)Thin-film silicon photovoltaic (PV) technology has an enormous potential in the solar power market due to its light weight, flexibility and ease of integration. This enables it to have a wide range of applications like roof top and building integrated installations making it more sustainable. Some of the other key benefits of thin-film silicon...master thesis 2023
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Mishra, Shantiswaroop (author)This report emphasizes the importance of implementing quality control methods in the production machines at HyET Solar for assessing the quality of deposited materials. The focus is on two key steps: the deposition of the front transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layer and the deposition of silicon layers. Models were developed to characterize...master thesis 2023
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Stevens, Tristan (author)Several promising photovoltaic (PV) concepts are supported by transistors. Along with the growth of PV capacity in the urban environment, issues related to partial shading highlight the interest in more shade-tolerant PV systems. An example of technologies improving a PV module’s energy yield under partial shading is the submodule power...master thesis 2023
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de Goede, Marnix (author)Passivating contacts in the front-rear contacted c-Si solar cells enhances the device performance by quenching the contact recombination and enabling sufficient carrier transport. Tunneling oxide passi- vating contact (TOPCon) which consists of an interfacial oxide and a poly-SiO𝑥 layer is one of the most promising contact techniques in...master thesis 2023
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Criel, Matthias (author)Thin-film silicon technology creates electricity out of micrometer thick silicon absorber layers, which makes this technology less material heavy compared to classic crystalline technology. This advantage can be further exploited with the transition towards flexible thin-film technology, where the non-modular cost can be further reduced compared...master thesis 2023
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Hendrix, Lorena (author)To make silicon thin film solar cells attractive to the market, their efficiencies should reach the efficiencies of the dominant crystalline silicon solar cell. Therefore the search for ways to improve the efficiency of silicon thin film solar cells continues. TCO front contact layers and back reflector layers play a significant role in the...master thesis 2023
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Al-Zoubi, Musa (author)Perovskite/Silicon tandem cells are gradually becoming more promising in the field of photovoltaic technology since they have already surpassed the theoretical power conversion efficiency (PCE) limit of single junction (SJ) silicon cells (~30%), while they can be commercially compatible. Several architectures of Perovskite/silicon devices were...master thesis 2022
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Kovačević, Katarina (author)Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells are one of the most promising PV technologies nowadays due to high photoconversion efficiencies and low manufacturing costs. However, standard front/back-contacted (FBC) solar cells feature a front metal grid that brings shading to the front side of the devices, which limits the conversion efficiency of...master thesis 2022
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Hou, ChengLi (author)Silicon solar cells account for about 95% of the total photovoltaic market share. Poly-Si passivating contacts are promising techniques enabling high performance c-Si solar cells with conversion efficiency over 26.0%. The highly absorptive nature of poly-Si materials makes the transparent passivating contacts attractive, such as poly-Si(O<sub>x<...master thesis 2022
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Vishwanathreddy, Sujith V (author)People worldwide have begun to feel the effects of climate change in recent years with unpredictable weather patterns, heatwaves, changes in precipitation, and sea level rise. To help mitigate climate change, photovoltaics (PV) is seen as a technology with the tremendous capability to satisfy the world’s electricity demands by tapping into...master thesis 2022
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Zhang, Jing (author)In recent decades, there has been increasing concern about the impact of climate change on the earth. Various countries are actively developing sustainable energy technologies, of which solar cell is one of the new energy sources with the most attention. This thesis is based on poly−Si(O<sub>x</sub>) cells consisting of SiO<sub>x</sub>/poly−Si(O...master thesis 2022
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Kuppuswamy Saravanan, Pavithran (author)In 2022, the Power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells has achieved an efficiency of >25\%. The cost-effective and flexible perovskite-based photovoltaic has been identified as an ideal solution to increase the integration of photovoltaics in buildings. However, for a large scale implementation, the perovskite photovoltaic must...master thesis 2022
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Sambamurthy, Sriram (author)The world is in need for an energy transition from the usage of fossil fuels to renewable energy source to reduce the harmful effects climate and health. Focusing on accelerating the research and development of photovoltaic technologies is an important step towards energy transition. The thin-film silicon solar modules has shown a great...master thesis 2022
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Blackstone, Thijs (author)A next step in the energy transition is to produce green fuels from sunlight. One way to achieve this is via high voltage photovoltaic (PV) devices which can directly drive electrolysis reactions to produce hydrogen or other chemical fuels. Group IV based multijunction (MJ) PV devices are a candidate to function as these high voltage devices.<br...master thesis 2022
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Shaikh, Raiyan (author)Emerging PV technologies like Perovskite has lead to the development of Perovskite/Silicon (Pvk/c-Si) tandem device (Multi-junction device) and has now gained a lot of momentum and attention due to the fact that the tandem device can reach a Shockley-Quisser limit of about 44.1% efficiency. But to speed up its development, a lot of emphasis is...master thesis 2022
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Kerklaan, Mels (author)Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are an emerging and promising photovoltaic technology that have demonstrated impressive power conversion efficiencies exceeding 25% after only fourteen years of development. This rapid progress can mostly be attributed to the development and optimisation of PSCs fabricated by solution-based methods, because of their...master thesis 2022