Bifacial Photovoltaic Technology: Recent Advancements, Simulation and Performance Measurement

In this chapter, we introduce the physic principle and applications of bifacial PV technology. We present different bifacial PV cell and module technologies as well as investigate the advantages of using bifacial PV technology in the field. We describe the measurement and modeling of Albedo, which is one of the important factors for the energy...

Towards bifacial silicon heterojunction solar cells with reduced TCO use

Reducing indium consumption, which is related to the transparent conductive oxide (TCO) use, is a key challenge for scaling up silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell technology to terawatt level. In this work, we developed bifacial SHJ solar cells with reduced TCO thickness. We present three types of In₂O₃-based TCOs,...

Fabrication of bifacial poly-Si solar cells with copper-plating metallization

Carrier-selective passivating contacts (CSPC) have been proven to be effective in suppressing recombination losses at metal-silicon interface in high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells. The poly-Si-based CSPCs consisting of SiOX/poly-Si stacks are used in this thesis due to their compatibility with high thermal budgets. CSPCs with thin...

Advanced Bifacial Solar Cell with Poly-Si Passivating Contacts

As a new face of PV industry, bifacial technology offers the utmost utilization of reflected light while efforts are still required to further improve its cell efficiency. The objective of this thesis project is to fabricate bifacial solar cell with poly-Si passivating contacts only underneath metal grids. An advanced bifacial architecture is...