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ZnO Transparent conductive oxide for thin film silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Sylvie Faÿ, Thomas Söderström, 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

High-rate deposition of microcrystalline silicon in a large-area PECVD reactor and integration in tandem solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Andrea Feltrin, Gaetano Parascandolo, Grégory Bugnon

We study the high-rate deposition of microcrystalline silicon in a large-area plasma-enhanced chemical-vapor-deposition (PECVD) reactor operated at 40.68 MHz, in the little-explored process conditions of high-pressure and high-silane concentration and depl ...

2010

Modification of textured silicon wafer surface morphology for fabrication of heterojunction solar cell with open circuit voltage over 700mV

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Stefaan De Wolf, Luc Fesquet

Crystalline silicon wafer (c-Si) can be extremely well passivated by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposited (PECVD) amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) films. As a result, on flat substrates, solar cells with very high open circuit voltage are readily obtained. O ...

2010

Carrier transport and sensitivity issues in heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer solar cells on N-type crystalline silicon: A computer simulation study

Christophe Ballif, Anwitaman Datta, Père Roca i Cabarrocas

Heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer or HIT solar cells are considered favorable for large-scale manufacturing of solar modules, as they combine the high efficiency of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, with the low cost of amorphous silicon techn ...

American Institute of Physics2010

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

Towards a better understanding of silicon heterojunction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Luc Fesquet

2009

Influence of pressure and silane depletion on microcrystalline silicon material quality and solar cell performance

Christophe Ballif, Andrea Feltrin, Grégory Bugnon, Julien Claude Bailat

Hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon growth by very high frequency plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition is investigated in an industrial-type parallel plate R&D KAI (TM) reactor to study the influence of pressure and silane depletion on material qual ...

2009

Growth model of MOCVD polycrystalline ZnO

Christophe Ballif, Sylvie Faÿ, Sylvain Nicolay

A growth model for the low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) of polycrystalline ZnO thin films is proposed. This model is based on experimental observations of the surface morphology and crystallographic orientations of the layers at different thi ...

2009

Diamond wire-sawn silicon wafers - from the lab to the cell production

Christophe Ballif, Adrien Bidiville

Wafers for the PV industry are mainly sawn with a multi-wire slurry saw. This process is slow (it takes almost half a day to complete a cut) and generates a lot of waste: around half the silicon is sawn away and contaminating the slurry, and the wire is wo ...

2009

Research and developments in thin film silicon photovoltaics

Christophe Ballif, Sylvie Faÿ, Martin Python, Thomas Söderström, 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

Laser applications in thin-film photovoltaics

Christophe Ballif, Benjamin Strahm, Andrea Feltrin

We review laser applications in thin-film photovoltaics (thin-film Si, CdTe, and Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells). Lasers are applied in this growing field to manufacture modules, to monitor Si deposition processes, and to characterize opto-electrical properties ...

Springer Verlag2009

Versatile thin-film photovoltaic laser scribing system

Christophe Ballif, Stefan Meyer

We present a laser scribing system for mid-size photovoltaic modules (up to 410 × 520 mm2) implementing a movable diode-pumped solid state laser. In this configuration, the heavy large-area photovoltaic module does not need to be displaced, allowing for fa ...

2009

Ultra-high quality surface passivation of crystalline silicon wafers in large area parallel plate reactor at 40 MHz

Christophe Ballif, Luc Fesquet

We use a new in-house, large area and automated deposition system: the usable deposition area is 410 × 520 mm with RF-frequency of 40 MHz. We deposit intrinsic a-Si:H layer on flat p-type or n-type c-Si wafers after performing an HF dip. The overall recomb ...

2009

Conducting two-phase silicon oxide layers for thin-film silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Andrea Feltrin, Julien Claude Bailat

We present optical properties and microstructure analyses of hydrogenated silicon suboxide layers containing silicon nanocrystals (nc-SiOx:H). This material is especially adapted for the use as intermediate reflecting layer (IRL) in micromorph silicon tand ...

2009

Light trapping effects in thin film silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Thomas Söderström, 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

FINAL RESULTS OF THE EUROPEAN PROJECT FLEXCELLENCE ROLL TO ROLL TECHNOLOGY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH EFFICIENCY LOW COST THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS

Christophe Ballif, Thomas Söderström, Vanessa Terrazzoni-Daudrix, Franz-Josef Haug

This paper reports on the final main results of the Flexcellence project. The project was running for 3 years and its goal was the development of equipments and processes for cost-effective roll-to-roll production of high-efficiency flexible thin-film sili ...

2009

Monitoring water vapour penetration using a contactless technique

Christophe Ballif, Mustapha Benkhaira, Laure-Emmanuelle Perret Aebi

Some layers of thin film photovoltaic modules maybe critically sensitive to moisture. In this study we present a new tool for monitoring the effect of moisture using a particular Transparent Conductive Oxide (TCO) as a sensor. The moisture content of the e ...

2009

Development of Micromorph Cells in Large-Area Industrial Reactor

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

The influences of the deposition pressure and silane depletion on the efficiency of single-junction microcrystalline silicon solar cells has been investigated. The efficiency is found to correlate with the ion energy which affects the density of states in ...

2009

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

Laser-based plasma diagnostics for PECVD of silicon thin films

Christophe Ballif, Benjamin Strahm, Andrea Feltrin

We present two laser systems to monitor plasma conditions in a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition chamber. The first optical system is a high-resolution quantum cascade laser-based infrared absorption spectrometer designed to measure the input silan ...

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