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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON MICROMORPH TANDEM CELLS AT IMT

Christophe Ballif, Andrea Feltrin, Gaetano Parascandolo, Grégory Bugnon, Matthieu Despeisse

The latest developments on micromorph tandem cells in small area laboratory and large area industrial PE-CVD systems are reviewed. We report on a 13.3% initial efficiency micromorph tandem cell deposited in our small area system. The development of an in-s ...

2009

Efficient Near-Infrared-Transparent Perovskite Solar Cells Enabling Direct Comparison of 4-Terminal and Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Cells

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Soo-Jin Moon, Arnaud Walter, Davide Sacchetto, Nicolas Tétreault, Stefaan De Wolf, Matthieu Despeisse, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Loris Barraud, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Björn Niesen, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

Combining market-proven silicon solar cell technology with an efficient wide band gap top cell into a tandem device is an attractive approach to reduce the cost of photovoltaic systems. For this, perovskite solar cells are promising high-efficiency top cel ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Dopant‐free back contacted silicon solar cells with an efficiency of 22.1%

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Sihua Zhong

2020

Fully textured monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 25.2% power conversion efficiency

Christophe Ballif, Laura Ding, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Davide Sacchetto, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Loris Barraud, Raphaël Monnard, Gianluca Cattaneo, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Björn Niesen, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger

Tandem devices combining perovskite and silicon solar cells are promising candidates to achieve power conversion efficiencies above 30% at reasonable costs. State-of-the-art monolithic two-terminal perovskite/silicon tandem devices have so far featured sil ...

2018

Research and developments in thin film silicon photovoltaics

Christophe Ballif, Sylvie Faÿ, Andrea Feltrin, Gaetano Parascandolo, Grégory Bugnon, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse

The increasing demand for photovoltaic devices and the associated crystalline silicon feedstock demand scenario have led in the past years to the fast growth of the thin film silicon industry. The high potential for cost reduction and the suitability for b ...

2009

Advanced method for electrical characterization of carrier-selective passivating contacts using transfer-length-method measurements under variable illumination

Christophe Ballif, Antoine Descoeudres, Sylvain Nicolay, Gabriel Christmann, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Jonas Geissbühler, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon

2021

Resistive interlayer for improved performance of thin film silicon solar cells on highly textured substrate

Christophe Ballif, Andrea Feltrin, Peter Cuony, Grégory Bugnon, Matthieu Despeisse, Michael Elias Stückelberger

The deposition of thin-film silicon solar cells on highly textured substrates results in improved light trapping in the cell. However, the growth of silicon layers on rough substrates can often lead to undesired current drains, degrading performance and re ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2010

Highly Conductive and Broadband Transparent Zr-Doped In2O3 as Front Electrode for Solar Cells (vol 8, pg 1202, 2018)

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Loris Barraud, Raphaël Monnard, Jakub Holovsky, Monica Morales Masis, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Realization of GaInP/Si Dual-Junction Solar Cells With 29.8% 1-Sun Efficiency

Christophe Ballif, Antoine Descoeudres, Antonin Faes, Jacques Levrat, Matthieu Despeisse, Loris Barraud, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Stephanie Essig

Combining a Si solar cell with a high-bandgap top cell reduces the thermalization losses in the short wavelength and enables theoretical 1-sun efficiencies far over 30%. We have investigated the fabrication and optimization of Si-based tandem solar cells w ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Hole-Selective Front Contact Stack Enabling 24.1%-Efficient Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Jean Cattin, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Minh Truong, Jan Haschke, Julie Amandine Dreon

The window-layer stack limits the efficiency of both-side-contacted silicon heterojunction solar cells. We discuss here the combination of several modifications to this stack to improve its optoelectronic performance. These include the introduction of a na ...

2020

Raising the one-sun conversion efficiency of III-V/Si solar cells to 32.8% for two junctions and 35.9% for three junctions

Christophe Ballif, Antoine Descoeudres, Matthieu Despeisse, Loris Barraud, Stephanie Essig

Today's dominant photovoltaic technologies rely on single-junction devices, which are approaching their practical efficiency limit of 25-27%. Therefore, researchers are increasingly turning to multi-junction devices, which consist of two or more stacked su ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

ITO/MoOx/a-Si:H(i) Hole-Selective Contacts for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Degradation Mechanisms and Cell Integration

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Antoine Descoeudres, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Gabriel Christmann, Davide Sacchetto, Matthieu Despeisse, Loris Barraud, Jonas Geissbühler

Molybdenum oxide is an efficient hole collector for silicon solar cells. However, its optoelectronic properties deteriorate during cell manufacturing. To assess this issue, the optoelectronic properties and microstructure of molybdenum oxide-based hole con ...

2017

Light-induced performance increase of silicon heterojunction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Antoine Descoeudres, Jacques Levrat, Sylvain Nicolay, Gabriel Christmann, Stefaan De Wolf, Matthieu Despeisse

Silicon heterojunction solar cells consist of crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafers coated with doped/intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) bilayers for passivating-contact formation. Here, we unambiguously demonstrate that carrier injection either ...

American Institute of Physics2016

Highly transparent ZnO bilayers by LP-MOCVD as front electrodes for thin-film micromorph silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Laura Ding, Sylvain Nicolay, Grégory Bugnon, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse

ZnO bilayer films were deposited by a low-pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition technique in a single process step, by doping with boron only the nucleation stage of the growth. The resulting 2 pm thick layers are characterized by low free carrie ...

Elsevier2012

Silicon oxide buffer layer at the p-i interface in amorphous and microcrystalline silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Gaetano Parascandolo, Grégory Bugnon, Matthieu Despeisse, Michael Elias Stückelberger

The use of intrinsic silicon oxide as a buffer layer at the p-i interface of thin-film silicon solar cells is shown to provide significant advantages. For microcrystalline silicon solar cells, when associated with highly crystalline i-layers deposited at h ...

Elsevier2014

Back-Contacted Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Optical-Loss Analysis and Mitigation

Christophe Ballif, Antoine Descoeudres, Sylvain Nicolay, Stefaan De Wolf, Matthieu Despeisse, Loris Barraud, Andrea Tomasi, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon

We analyze the optical losses that occur in interdigitated back-contacted amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells. We show that in our devices, the main loss mechanisms are similar to those of two-side contacted heterojunction solar cells. ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

22% Efficient Dopant-free Interdigitated Back Contact Silicon Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Sihua Zhong

In this study, we present dopant-free back contact heterojunction silicon solar cells employing MoOx and MgFx based stacks as hole-and electron-selective contacts deposited using a thermal evaporation process at low temperature. Only two masking steps and ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2018

Time evolution of surface defect states in hydrogenated amorphous silicon studied by photothermal and photocurrent spectroscopy and optical simulation

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Jakub Holovsky

The time evolution of surface defect density and width of space charge region in thin layer of amorphous silicon is observed experimentally by Fourier transform photocurrent spectroscopy. This work reviews the assumption that photocurrent is insensitive to ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

Low noise, low power front end electronics for pixelized TFA sensors

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse

Thin Film on ASIC (TFA) technology combines advantages of two commonly used pixel imaging detectors, namely, Monolithic Active Pixels (MAPs) and Hybrid Pixel detectors. Thanks to direct deposition of a hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a- Si:H) sensor lm on ...

2009

ZnO Transparent conductive oxide for thin film silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Sylvie Faÿ, Andrea Feltrin, Peter Cuony, Sylvain Nicolay, Grégory Bugnon, Franz-Josef Haug, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse

There is general agreement that the future production of electric energy has to be renewable and sustainable in the long term. Photovoltaic (PV) is booming with more than 7GW produced in 2008 and will therefore play an important role in the future electric ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2010