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Amorphous/Crystalline Silicon Interface Stability: Correlation between Infrared Spectroscopy and Electronic Passivation Properties

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Jakub Holovsky, Silvia Martin de Nicolas Agut

Ultrathin layers of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H), passivating the surface of crystalline silicon (c-Si), are key enablers for high-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells. In this work, the authors apply highly sensitive attenuated total r ...

WILEY2020

Instability of p-i-n perovskite solar cells under reverse bias

Christophe Ballif, Laura Ding, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Arnaud Walter, Florent Sahli, Peter Joseph Fiala, Chien-Jen Yang, Fan Fu, Marion Solange Madeleine Dussouillez, Ricardo Augusto Zanotto Razera, Daniel Anthony Jacobs

Partial shading can trigger permanent damage in photovoltaic modules because the illuminated solar cells drive the shaded cells into reverse bias. Under reverse bias conditions, perovskite solar cells have been shown to degrade quickly due to processes tha ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Effects of X-rays on Perovskite Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Yun Luo, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Jérémie Werner, Björn Niesen, Xueying Li

Synchrotron micro- and nanoprobe beamlines have demonstrated great potential to advance photovoltaic devices. Most importantly, their small X-ray spot size has enabled the direct correlation of electrical performance with elemental composition at subgrain ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Influence of the Subcell Properties on the Fill Factor of Two-Terminal Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard

The performance of a tandem solar cell depends on the performance of its constituting subcells. Although this dependency is theoretically straightforward for open-circuit voltage (V-oc) and short-circuit current, it is indirect for fill factor (FF) and thu ...

2020

Spectrally Selective Mid-Wave Infrared Detection Using Fabry-Perot Cavity Enhanced Black Phosphorus 2D Photodiodes

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Wei Yan

Thin two-dimensional (2D) material absorbers have the potential to reduce volume-dependent thermal noise in infrared detectors. However, any reduction in noise must be balanced against lower absorption from the thin layer, which necessitates advanced optic ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Influence of local surface defects on the minority-carrier lifetime of passivating-contact solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jean Cattin, Jan Haschke

Unlocking the full potential of passivating contacts, increasingly popular in the silicon solar cell industry, requires determining the minority carrier lifetime. Minor passivation drops limit the functioning of solar cells; however, they are not detected ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2020

Encapsulant Selection for PID Resistant Modules Made with Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Luca Gnocchi

Recent studies showed that SHJ solar cells can be prone to PID when encapsulated with a low volume resistivity encapsulant, such as ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA). These studies also demonstrated that their degradation mechanism is different from Al-BSF modu ...

EU PVSEC Proceedings2020

Optimized Module Packaging for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells and Increased PID Resistance

Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Luca Gnocchi, Fabiana Lisco

Recent studies showed that silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells can be prone to potential induced degradation (PID) when encapsulated with a low volume resistivity ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA). We perform PID test in humid conditions (85°C/85% RH) on g ...

EU PVSEC Proceedings2020

Mitigating the impact of distributed PV in a low-voltage grid using electricity tariffs

Christophe Ballif, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Nicolas Würsch, Jordan Holweger

A high share of distributed photovoltaic (PV) generation in low-voltage networks may lead to over-voltage, and line/transformer overloading. To mitigate these issues, we investigate how advanced electricity tariffs could ensure safe grid operation while en ...

2020

Optimization of front SiNx/ITO stacks for high-efficiency two-side contacted c-Si solar cells with co-annealed front and rear passivating contacts

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Xavier Niquille, Franz-Josef Haug, Frank Meyer, Andrea Ingenito

In this contribution, we present an electron selective passivating contact metallised with a low temperature process to target front side applications in crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells. In addition to an interfacial silicon oxide (SiOx) and an in-s ...

2020

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

Linking simulation and synthesis of nickel oxide hole-selective contacts for silicon heterojunction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Rachel Emma Woods-Robinson, Angela Nicole Fioretti

In silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells, one factor limiting efficiency is "parasitic absorption" from amorphous silicon (a-Si) at the front surface. Thus, discovery of a transparent hole-selective contact to replace p-type a-Si is a promising area of ...

IEEE2020

Rule-based scheduling of air conditioning using occupancy forecasting

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Marina Dorokhova

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems represent considerable potential for energy savings, which can be realized through intelligent occupancy-centered control strategies. In this work, both supervised and unsupervised algorithms to forecast oc ...

2020

Design Rules to Fully Benefit From Bifaciality in Two-Terminal Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Arttu Matias Tuomiranta, Pierre-Jean Alet, Olivier Denis Dupré

The photovoltaics industry is adopting bifacial systems which offer improved energy harvesting compared to monofacial ones. This stems from the collection of light reflected by the surroundings on the rear side of the modules, leading to system-level gains ...

2020

Degradation Mechanism and Stability Improvement of Dopant-Free ZnO/LiFx/Al Electron Nanocontacts in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Julie Amandine Dreon, Sihua Zhong, Wenjie Lin

Dopant-free passivating contacts for photovoltaics have the potential to be deposited at low costs, while providing excellent surface passivation and low contact resistance. However, one pressing issue of dopant-free carrier selective contacts is their low ...

2020

AMPERE: a succesful project to regain European PV manufacture competitiveness

Christophe Ballif

AMPERE project, acronym for Automated photovoltaic cell and Module industrial Production to regain and secure European Renewable Energy market, is aimed to the setting-up of an innovative 200 MWp/y full-scale automated pilot line for the production of hete ...

IEEE2020

Optimised Heat Pump Management for Increasing Photovoltaic Penetration into the Electricity Grid

Christophe Ballif, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Jordan Holweger, Cristian Sanchez Perez

Advanced control of heat pumps with thermal storage and photovoltaics has recently been promoted as a promising solution to help decarbonise the residential sector. Heat pumps and thermal storage offer a valuable flexibilisation mean to integrate stochasti ...

2019

Unsupervised algorithm for disaggregating low-sampling-rate electricity consumption of households

Christophe Ballif, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Nicolas Würsch, Jordan Holweger, Marina Dorokhova

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) has been extensively researched over the last decade. The objective of NILM is to identify the power consumption of individual appliances and to detect when particular devices are on or off from measuring the power cons ...

2019

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

Low Temperature p-type Microcrystalline Silicon as Carrier Selective Contact for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Raphaël Monnard, Angela Nicole Fioretti

Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells have reached record efficiency, particularly in all-back-contacted architectures. Despite this, two-side contacted SHJ cells still suffer from parasitic absorption and series resistance losses in the amorphous silic ...

2019

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