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Passivating contact-based tunnel junction Si solar cells using machine learning for tandem cell applications

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset

Tandem solar cells are a key technology for exceeding the theoretical efficiency limit of single-junction cells. One of the most promising combinations is the silicon-perovskite tandem cells, considering their potential for high efficiency, fabrication on ...

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Implementation and understanding of p plus fired rear hole selective tunnel oxide passivating contacts enabling > 22% conversion efficiency in p-type c-Si solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Sylvain Nicolay, Andrea Ingenito, Philippe Wyss, Sofia Libraro

Passivating contacts are key enablers for high efficiency c-Si solar cells. Here, we present our latest advancement in terms of implementation and understanding in fired passivating contacts (FPC) used as rear p + passivating contact in p-type solar cells. ...

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Impact of rapid thermal processing on bulk and surface recombination mechanisms in FZ silicon with fired passivating contacts

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Andrea Ingenito, Mario Joe Lehmann, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset, Sofia Libraro

We investigate bulk and interface recombination in crystalline silicon with p-type fired passivating contacts. These consist of a chemical oxide and an in-situ doped layer of SiCx with low carbon content. Following a rapid thermal annealing to activate the ...

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Plasmonic silicon solar cells: impact of material quality and geometry

Christophe Ballif, Hans Peter Herzig, Franz-Josef Haug, Ali Naqavi, Céline Pahud

We study n-i-p amorphous silicon solar cells with light-scattering nanoparticles in the back reflector. In one configuration, the particles are fully embedded in the zinc oxide buffer layer; In a second configuration, the particles are placed between the b ...

Optical Society of America2013

Light trapping effects in thin film silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug

We present advanced light trapping concepts for thin film silicon solar cells. When an amorphous and a microcrystalline absorber layers are combined into a micromorph tandem cell, light trapping becomes a challenge because it should combine the spectral re ...

2009

Micromorph silicon solar cell optical performance: Influence of intermediate reflector and front electrode surface texture

Franz-Josef Haug, Mathieu Gérard Boccard

The optical performance of tandem a-Si:H/mu c-Si:H (micromorph) thin film solar cell was investigated experimentally and by means of rigorous 3-D optical simulation. The interplay of intermediate reflectors, with different refractive indices and thicknesse ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Stencil-nanopatterned back reflectors for thin-film amorphous silicon n-i-p solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Jürgen Brugger, Franz-Josef Haug, Andreea Veronica Savu, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Céline Pahud

We fabricated amorphous silicon n-i-p solar cells with two types of nanopatterned back reflectors using stencil lithography. One reflector type has a plasmonic grating that is embedded in the ZnO layer; the other one has a metallic grating patterned on top ...

Ieee2012

Hole-Selective SiNx and AlOx Tunnel Nanolayers for Improved Polysilicon Passivating Contacts

Franz-Josef Haug, Sofia Libraro, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset, Ezgi Genç

A highly efficient hole-selective passivating contact remains the crucial step required to increase the efficiency of polysilicon-based Si solar cells. The future development of solar modules depends on a device structure that can complement the electron-s ...

2024

Class AAA LED-Based Solar Simulator for Steady-State Measurements and Light Soaking

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Yannick Samuel Riesen

Recent improvements in light-emitting diode (LED) technology has allowed for the use of LEDs for solar simulators with excellent characteristics. In this paper, we present a solar simulator prototype fully based on LEDs. Our prototype has been designed spe ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

From randomly self-textured substrates to highly efficient thin film solar cells: Influence of geometric interface engineering on light trapping, plasmonic losses and charge extraction

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Etienne Antoine Julien Moulin

An approach that models the fabrication and enables the characterization of randomly self-textured silicon thin film solar cells is developed and are compared to experimental results. The optical and electrical properties of the solar cells depend on the m ...

Elsevier2017

A recalculation of the efficiency limit in crystalline Si/Si tandem solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug

We determine the limiting efficiency for monolithic tandem solar cells that employ crystalline silicon for the top-cell as well as for the bottom cell. In such a design, the top-cell extends over the region of very high generation rate that forms at the fr ...

2021

High-Efficiency Amorphous Silicon Solar Cell on a Periodic Nanocone Back Reflector

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Corsin Battaglia, Céline Pahud

An amorphous silicon solar cell on a periodic nanocone back reflector with a high 9.7% initial conversion efficiency is presented. The optimized back-reflector morphology provides powerful light trapping and enables excellent electrical cell performance. U ...

2012

Nanoscale Study of the Hole-Selective Passivating Contacts with High Thermal Budget Using C-AFM Tomography

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Martin Ledinsky

We investigate hole-selective passivating contacts that consist of an interfacial layer of silicon oxide (SiOx) and a layer of boron-doped SiCx(p). The fabrication process of these contacts involves an annealing step at temperatures above 750 degrees C whi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Passivating Polysilicon Recombination Junctions for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Andrea Ingenito, Mario Joe Lehmann, Philippe Wyss, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset

Polysilicon recombination junctions whose n-type bottom layers double as a passivating contact to the silicon surface are investigated. Such recombination junctions are a key element in the interconnection of tandem devices with a silicon bottom cell, and ...

2021

NANO-IMPRINT TECHNIQUE FOR BACK REFLECTOR IN HIGH EFFICIENCY N-I-P THIN FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Karin Söderström, Jordi Escarre Palou, Rémi Biron, Céline Pahud

In this contribution, the replication of nano-textures enhancing the short circuit current of thin film silicon solar cells onto low cost substrates (glass or PolyEthylene Naphtalate (PEN)) is studied. Optical and morphological analysis is performed to ass ...

2010

Simultaneous realization of light distribution and trapping in micromorph tandem solar cells using novel double-layered antireflection coatings

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Etienne Antoine Julien Moulin

Implementing antireflection (AR) coatings in micromorph tandem solar cells is a challenging process in which not only more sunlight should get conducted into the cells, but also the current matching between subcells should either be maintained or get impro ...

Elsevier2015

Window layer with p doped silicon oxide for high V-oc thin-film silicon n-i-p solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Jordi Escarre Palou, Céline Pahud, Rémi Biron

We investigate the influence of the oxygen content in boron-doped nanocrystalline silicon oxide films (p-nc-SiOx) and introduce this material as window layer in n-i-p solar cells. The dependence of both, optical and electrical properties on the oxygen cont ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Review: Progress in solar cells from hydrogenated amorphous silicon

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Rémi Biron

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (alpha-Si:H) has been used for decades doped and as intrinsic absorber layers in thin-film silicon solar cells. Whereas their effiency was improved for a long time by the deposition of higher quality absorber layers, recent i ...

Elsevier2017

Thin-Film Silicon Triple-Junction Solar Cells on Highly Transparent Front Electrodes With Stabilized Efficiencies up to 12.8%

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Grégory Bugnon, Michael Elias Stückelberger

High-efficiency thin-film silicon triple-junction solar cells in p-i-n configuration have been fabricated using amorphous silicon top cell absorber layers, as well as microcrystalline silicon middle and bottom cell absorbers. The triple-junction cells were ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Interactions between aluminium and fired passivating contacts during fire-through metallization

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Mario Joe Lehmann, Sofia Libraro

Replacing silver metallization with earth-abundant materials in Si solar cells is a critical step towards the sustainable growth of photovoltaics. In this work, we investigate fire-through processes using Al for the metallization of solar cells with p-type ...

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