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A comprehensive physical model for the sensitivity of silicon heterojunction photovoltaic modules to water ingress

Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Luca Gnocchi, Olatz Arriaga Arruti

Silicon heterojunction (SHJ)-solar modules-when encapsulated with ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA)-are known to be extremely sensitive to water ingress. The reason for this is, however, not clear. Here, we explain the root causes of this degradation mechanism ...

Cell Press2024

Encapsulation strategies for mechanical impact and damp heat reliability improvement of lightweight photovoltaic modules towards vehicle-integrated applications

Fabiana Lisco

Lightweight modules are essential for next-generation vehicle-integrated photovoltaic (VIPV) applications, such as solar-powered cars, allowing integration of solar cells beyond the roof, and on the hood, boot and body panels, and thereby extending the dri ...

Elsevier2024

Disentangling Thermal from Electronic Contributions in the Spectral Response of Photoexcited Perovskite Materials

Majed Chergui, Malte Oppermann, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Lijie Wang

Disentangling electronic and thermal effects in photoexcited perovskite materials is crucial for photovoltaic and optoelectronic applications but remains a challenge due to their intertwined nature in both the time and energy domains. In this study, we emp ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Silica aerogel as rear reflector in silicon heterojunction solar cells for improved infrared response

Deniz Türkay

Silicon (Si), with its indirect bandgap, is a non-ideal absorber. Thus, various strategies to boost silicon solar cells' efficiency, including advanced texturing, multilayer anti-reflecting coating, and rear reflectors are utilized. Dielectrics, deposited ...

ELSEVIER2023

III-V Nitride Semiconductors Deposited At Low Temperature For Photovoltaic Applications

Jonathan Emanuel Thomet

This thesis reports on the study and use of low temperature processes for the deposition of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) thin films in order to alleviate some of the present drawbacks of its monolitic deposition on silicon for photovoltaic applications. ...

EPFL2023

Investigation and Mitigation of Moisture- and Potential-Induced Degradation Mechanisms of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells and Modules

Olatz Arriaga Arruti

Photovoltaic (PV) technology is one of the most promising renewable energy sources. The PV market is dominated by crystalline silicon (c-Si) based technologies, thus ensuring their long-term performance is of paramount importance for manufacturers, investo ...

EPFL2023

Zn3P2 as an earth-abundant photovoltaic material: from growth to device

Rajrupa Paul

The development of cost-effective and earth-abundant semiconducting materials is imperative for the sustainable deployment of photovoltaic technology. Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) is a promising candidate for terawatt-scale electricity generation. It has a near- ...

EPFL2023

Rationalizing Performance Losses of Wide Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells Evident in Data from the Perovskite Database

Christian Michael Wolff, Tor Jesper Jacobsson

Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) have become a widely studied class of semiconductors for various optoelectronic devices. The possibility to tune their bandgap (E-g) over a broad spectral range from 1.2 eV to 3 eV by compositional engineering makes them par ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

22.8% full-area bifacial n-PERT solar cells with rear side sputtered poly-Si (n) passivating contact

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Andrea Ingenito, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Sofia Libraro

High-temperature compatible passivating contacts based on phosphorus doped polysilicon (poly-Si(n)) on a thin silicon oxide, employed on the rear side of bifacial n-PERT like solar cells provide an efficiency increase while being compatible with current ph ...

ELSEVIER2023

Transport and Interfacial Injection of d-Band Hot Holes Control Plasmonic Chemistry

Giulia Tagliabue, Fateme Kiani Shahvandi, Alan Richard Bowman, Milad Sabzehparvar, Omer Can Karaman

Harnessing nonequilibrium hot carriers from plasmonic metal nanostructures constitutes a vibrant research field with the potential to control photochemical reactions, particularly for solar fuel generation. However, a comprehensive understanding of the int ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

A holistic investigation of photocatalytic hydrogen generation

Sangram Ashok Savant

Photocatalytic (PC) solar hydrogen production is a promising way to provide green hydrogen using only sunlight and abundant reactants such as water. PC approaches use catalytically active semiconductor particles suspended in liquid electrolytes. The partic ...

EPFL2023

Overview of key results achieved in H2020 HighLite project helping to raise the EU PV industries' competitiveness

Antonin Faes, Gizem Nogay, Giuseppe Galbiati, Hugo James André Quest

The EU crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV manufacturing industry has faced strong foreign competition in the last decade. To strive in this competitive environment and differentiate itself from the competition, the EU c-Si PV manufacturing industry needs to (1) ...

WILEY2023

Photoelectrochemical Cell Engineering for Solar Energy Conversion

Dan Zhang

Solar energy is the most abundant energy source, harnessing solar energy holds the solution to the challenge of increasing global energy demand and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Photovoltaics which directly convert solar energy into electricity ...

EPFL2023

Modeling and assessment of high-temperature photo-electrochemical devices

Ronald Ramiro Gutierrez Perez

In this thesis, the feasibility and performance of photo-driven electrochemical (PEC) devices working at elevated temperatures (T>700 K) is investigated and modeled. In such high-temperature PEC devices, a part of the solar spectrum is used for generating ...

EPFL2022

Contact Resistivity Measurements and their Applicability for Accurate Series Resistance Breakdown in Heterojunction Solar Cell

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Julie Amandine Dreon, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Deniz Türkay, Laurie-Lou Senaud

In this work, we use several approaches to perform accurate Series Resistance (R-S) breakdown of a state of the art 2 cm x 2 cm screen-printed solar cell reaching 82.5% FF. On the one hand, Haschke et al.'s model for the lateral transport through the cell, ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2022

Optimizing the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of the Triplet-Pair Dissociation in Donor–Acceptor Copolymers for Intramolecular Singlet Fission

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Maria Fumanal Quintana

Singlet fission (SF) is a two-step process in which a singlet splits into two triplets throughout the so-called correlated triplet-pair (1TT) state. Intramolecular SF (iSF) materials, in particular, have attracted growing interest as they can be easily imp ...

2022

Molybdenum oxide as a case study for the diagnosis of carrier selective contacts in silicon heterojunction solar cells

Julie Amandine Dreon

Environmental challenges impose a rapid energy transition. The renewable power capacity is expected to increase by 50% in the next 5 years, and recent scenarios plan that photovoltaics (PV) will be leading the new energy sources. Combining high efficiencie ...

EPFL2022

Integration of thin n-type nc-Si:H layers in the window-multilayer stack of heterojunction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Laurie-Lou Senaud

N-type nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H(n)) layers are good candidates to improve current and transport properties in heterojunction solar cells. In this work, we perform thickness series alongside PH3 doping series to unravel the desirable characteristics ...

ELSEVIER2022

Hole transport material, synthesis thereof, and solar cell

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yuhang Liu

The organic small molecule 4,4',4",4"'-(5,5-dimethoxycyclopenta-1,3-diene-1,2,3,4-tetrayl)tetrakis(N,N-bis(4-methoxyhenyl)aniline (CPDA 1), shows electrochemical properties very close to spiro-OMeTAD indicating a high compatibility with PSC systems for its ...

2022

In Operando, Photovoltaic, and Microscopic Evaluation of Recombination Centers in Halide Perovskite-Based Solar Cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

The origin of the low densities of electrically active defects in Pb halide perovskite (HaP), a crucial factor for their use in photovoltaics, light emission, and radiation detection, remains a matter of discussion, in part because of the difficulty in det ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022