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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, Sylvain Nicolay, Philippe Wyss, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Andrea Ingenito, 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. ...

ELSEVIER2021

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

Quantifying and modeling the impact of interconnection failures on the electrical performance of crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules

Christophe Ballif, Fanny Sculati-Meillaud, Antonin Faes, Jacques Levrat, Matthieu Despeisse, Eleonora Annigoni, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani

Failures in the metallic interconnections are among the main degradation modes for photovoltaic modules. Fatigue accumulation due to thermomechanical stresses can result in deterioration of the solder joints or in broken ribbons. In this paper, we first qu ...

2019

Stress tolerance of lightweight glass-free PV modules for vehicle integration

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Antonin Faes, Jacques Levrat, Matthieu Despeisse, Gianluca Cattaneo, Fahradin Mujovi, Kléber Nicolet-dit-Félix, Umang Bhupatrai Desai

Electric vehicles (EVs) currently dominate the sales in the automotive market. A big leap in this market can be made by developing a photovoltaic product that can be integrated to an EV, as it can boost the driving range of the EV while reducing the chargi ...

Edp Sciences S A2024

Smoothening intermediate reflecting layer for tandem thin-film silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Corsin Battaglia

We introduce the concept of smoothening intermediate reflecting layers (IRLs) in Micromorph thin-film silicon tandem solar cells in the superstrate configuration. The aim of such structures is not only to provide a selective reflection of light for optimal ...

Elsevier2013

A Mixed-Phase SiOx Hole Selective Junction Compatible With High Temperatures Used in Industrial Solar Cell Manufacturing

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Philippe Wyss, Xavier Niquille, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Mario Joe Lehmann, Iris Anita Mack, Gizem Nogay, Josua Andreas Stückelberger, Andrea Ingenito

We present a p-type passivating rear contact that complies with integration into standard solar cell manufacturing with phosphorus-diffused front side. Our contact structure consists of a thin SiOx tunneling layer grown by wet chemistry and a stack of laye ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

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

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

Profilometry of thin films on rough substrates by Raman spectroscopy

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Matthieu Despeisse, Jonas Geissbühler, Andrea Tomasi, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Martin Ledinsky

Thin, light-absorbing films attenuate the Raman signal of underlying substrates. In this article, we exploit this phenomenon to develop a contactless thickness profiling method for thin films deposited on rough substrates. We demonstrate this technique by ...

Nature Research2016

Improved Optics in Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells with a Nanocrystalline Silicon Recombination Junction

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Stefaan De Wolf, Matthieu Despeisse, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Loris Barraud, Raphaël Monnard, Johannes Peter Seif, Andrea Tomasi, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Björn Niesen, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells are increasingly recognized as promi-sing candidates for next-generation photovoltaics with performance beyond the single-junction limit at potentially low production costs. Current designs for monolithic tandems rely ...

2017

Phosphorous-Doped Silicon Carbide as Front-Side Full-Area Passivating Contact for Double-Side Contacted c-Si Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Philippe Wyss, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Josua Andreas Stückelberger, Andrea Ingenito, Luca Gnocchi

We present an electron selective passivating contact based on a tunneling SiOx capped with a phosphorous doped siliconcarbideandpreparedwithahigh-temperaturethermalanneal. We investigate in detail the effects of the preparation conditions of theSiCx(n)(i.e ...

2018

A passivating contact for silicon solar cells formed during a single firing thermal annealing

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Monica Morales Masis, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Andrea Ingenito

Passivating contacts are indispensable for achieving high conversion efficiency in crystalline-silicon solar cells. Their realization and integration into a convenient process flow have become crucial research objectives. Here, we report an alternative pas ...

2018

Low-Temperature Screen-Printed Metallization for the Scale-Up of Two-Terminal Perovskite-Silicon Tandems

Christophe Ballif, Antonin Faes, Jacques Levrat, Laura Ding, Sylvain Nicolay, Gabriel Christmann, Soo-Jin Moon, Arnaud Walter, Adriana Paracchino, Matthieu Despeisse, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon

Tandem photovoltaic devices based on perovskite and crystalline silicon (PK/c-Si) absorbers have the potential to push commercial silicon single junction devices beyond their current efficiency limit. However, their scale-up to industrially relevant sizes ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

The impact of silicon solar cell architecture and cell interconnection on energy yield in hot & sunny climates

Christophe Ballif, Jacques Levrat, Stefaan De Wolf, Matthieu Despeisse, Jean Cattin, Yannick Samuel Riesen, Johannes Peter Seif, Andrea Tomasi, Jan Haschke

Extensive knowledge of the dependence of solar cell and module performance on temperature and irradiance is essential for their optimal application in the field. Here we study such dependencies in the most common high-efficiency silicon solar cell architec ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Increasing the efficiency of silicon heterojunction solar cells and modules by light soaking

Christophe Ballif, Antoine Descoeudres, Jacques Levrat, Stefaan De Wolf, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse

Silicon heterojunction solar cells use crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafers as optical absorbers and employ bilayers of doped/intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) to form passivating contacts. Recently, we demonstrated that such solar cells incre ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

LPCVD ZnO-based intermediate reflector for micromorph tandem solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Laura Ding, Sylvain Nicolay, Grégory Bugnon, Matthieu Despeisse

The use of zinc oxide (ZnO) based intermediate reflector (ZIR) in micromorph solar cells using low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) was investigated. The influences of deposition temperature and dopant gas concentration on grain size and lateral ...

2011

Reassessment of cell to module gains and losses: Accounting for the current boost specific to cells located on the edges

Christophe Ballif, Jacques Levrat, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Olivier Denis Dupré

The power produced by a photovoltaic module is not simply the sum of the powers of its constituents cells. The difference stems from a number of so-called “cell-to-module” (CTM) gain or loss mechanisms. These are getting more and more attention as improvem ...

2018

A passivating contact concept compatible with a short thermal treatment

Christophe Ballif, Philippe Wyss, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Gizem Nogay, Josua Andreas Stückelberger, Andrea Ingenito

In this study we present a boron-doped silicon carbide layers as a hole-selective contact which is compatible with short annealing time (typically < 1 minute) as the one used for firing of metal pastes. The application of such layers on symmetrically proce ...

IEEE2018

Micro-Channel Plate Detectors Based on Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Dunand, Matthieu Despeisse, François Eric Powolny

A new type of micro-channel plate detector based on hydrogenated amorphous silicon is proposed which overcomes the fabrication and performance issues of glass or bulk silicon ones. This new type of detectors consists in 80-100 μm thick layers of amorphous ...

2010

Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells on Quasi-mono Wafers

Christophe Ballif, Antoine Descoeudres, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Loris Barraud, Raphaël Monnard, Jan Haschke

We applied hydrogen passivation, gettering and a combination of both to quasi-mono (qm) wafer material to enhance its bulk lifetime and prepared silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells. We find that while our applied hydrogen passivation alone seems not t ...

IEEE2018

Comparison of amorphous silicon absorber materials: Light-induced degradation and solar cell efficiency

Christophe Ballif, Grégory Bugnon, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Jan-Willem Alexander Schüttauf

Several amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) deposition conditions have been reported to produce films that degrade least under light soaking when incorporated into a-Si:H solar cells. However, a systematic comparison of these a-Si:H materials has never been present ...

American Institute of Physics2013