Fabrication of high temperature carrier-selective passivating contact solar cells for application in monolithic perovskite/c-Si tandem devices

Crystalline silicon (c-Si) homojunction architectures like aluminum back-surface field (Al-BSF) and passivated emitter and rear cell (PERC) dominated the solar cell market for the last decades. Recently, carrier-selective passivating contact (CSPC) designs have shown that they can effectively reduce recombination losses and exhibit efficiencies...

Fabrication of high efficiency poly-SiOx passivated c-Si FBC solar cells

Carrier selective passivating contacts (CSPC) have proven to effectively curtail the recombination losses emerging at directly metallised contacts of crystalline Silicon (c-Si) solar cells. CSPCs enabled using an ultra-thin interfacial tunnel oxide layer (SiOx) capped by a doped polycrystalline Silicon (poly-Si) layer also referred to as Tunnel...

High efficiency IBC solar cells with poly-Si implanted passivating contacts

Crystalline silicon (c-Si) interdigitated back contacted (IBC) solar cell with poly-Si passivating contacts is one of the most promising approaches to achieve high conversion efficiency solar cells. The fabrication of IBC silicon-based solar cells provided by poly-Si passivating contacts is investigated in this thesis. The passivating poly-Si...