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

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Olivier Denis Dupré, Arttu Matias Tuomiranta

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

Zr-doped indium oxide electrodes: Annealing and thickness effects on microstructure and carrier transport

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Monica Morales Masis, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Federica Landucci

Zr-doped indium oxide (In2O3:Zr) has been shown to satisfy the requirements of low resistance, wide band gap, and high infrared transmittance for application as a front contact in broadband solar cells. However, the reduction of indium usage in front of tr ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Contact Resistivity Measurements and their Applicability for Accurate Series Resistance Breakdown in Heterojunction Solar Cell

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Julie Amandine Dreon, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Deniz Türkay, Laurie-Lou Senaud

In this work, we use several approaches to perform accurate Series Resistance (R-S) breakdown of a state of the art 2 cm x 2 cm screen-printed solar cell reaching 82.5% FF. On the one hand, Haschke et al.'s model for the lateral transport through the cell, ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2022

Illumination-Dependent Requirements for Heterojunctions and Carrier-Selective Contacts on Silicon

Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jakub Holovsky, Luca Massimiliano Antognini

High efficiency silicon solar cells generally feature heterojunction or carrier-selective contact architectures, for which there is current interest in developing structures using a wide range of materials. The electrical and optical requirements that thes ...

2020

Comparison of amorphous silicon absorber materials: Kinetics of light-induced degradation

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

We investigate the influence of the deposition parameters for intrinsic amorphous silicon absorber layers on light-induced degradation (LID) of thin-film silicon solar cells. The focus is on absorber layers with different bandgaps: on one side, solar cells ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Exploring co-sputtering of ZnO:Al and SiO2 for efficient electron-selective contacts on silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Monica Morales Masis, Sihua Zhong

In recent years, considerable efforts have been devoted to developing novel electron-selective materials for crystalline Si(c-Si) solar cells with the attempts to simplify the fabrication process and improve efficiency. In this study, ZnO:Al (AZO) is co-sp ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Optimized short-circuit current mismatch in multi-junction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Grégory Bugnon, Fanny Sculati-Meillaud

Multi-junction photovoltaic devices include two or more component sub-cells which are electrically interconnected in series. At any power point, the current output of the total device is limited by the sub-cell with the smallest current density. Therefore, ...

Elsevier2013

Amorphous silicon-germanium for triple and quadruple junction thin-film silicon based solar cells

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

We study amorphous silicon-germanium (a-SiGe:H) as intrinsic absorber material for thin-film silicon-based triple and quadruple junction solar cells. First, we present the development of a-SiGe:H single junction devices, in particular the Ge-content gradin ...

Elsevier2015

Silver versus white sheet as a back reflector for microcrystalline silicon solar cells deposited on LPCVD-ZnO electrodes of various textures

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Etienne Antoine Julien Moulin

We compare the performance of two back reflector designs on the optoelectrical properties of microcrystalline silicon solar cells. The first one consists of a 5-mu m-thick low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD)-ZnO electrode combined with a white s ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Status and perspectives of crystalline silicon photovoltaics in research and industry

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Mathieu Gérard Boccard

Crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaics has long been considered energy intensive and costly. Over the past decades, spectacular improvements along the manufacturing chain have made c-Si a low-cost source of electricity that can no longer be ignored. Over ...

2022

A scalable and inexpensive surface-texturization method for advanced transparent front electrodes in microcrystalline and micromorph thin film silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Yang Wang

As the thin film silicon solar cell technology reaches a pivotal point to keep competing in the photovoltaic industry where crystalline silicon and other technologies currently dominate, it has become an urgent task to revolutionize some of its state-of-th ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2015

Impact of the Oxygen Content on the Optoelectronic Properties of the Indium-Tin-Oxide Based Transparent Electrodes for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Jean Cattin, Akshath Raghu Shetty

Amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells technology is attracting tremendous attention in recent years due to its potential to achieve high power conversion efficiencies at low fabrication temperatures and using few process steps. How ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Effects of Work Function and Electron Affinity on the Performance of Carrier-Selective Contacts in Silicon Solar Cells Using ZnSnx Ge-1 (-) N-x(2) as a Case Study

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Julien Hurni

This work reports the electrical characterization of ZnSnx Ge1 - xN2 (ZTGN) layers (10% < x < 90%) deposited on glass by combinatorial sputtering and further assesses the performance of silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells featuring them as electron-se ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

New metric for carrier selective contacts for silicon heterojunction solar cells

Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jakub Holovsky

Heterojunction carrier selective contacts for solar cells have gained great attention because of the ability of these contacts to efficiently collect majority carriers while hindering the recombination of minority carriers, thus resulting in the highest re ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Optimized Design of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells for Field Operating Conditions

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Jean Cattin, Olivier Denis Dupré

Solar modules are currently characterised at standard test conditions (STC), defined at 1000 W/m2 and 25 °C. However, solar modules in actual outdoor operating conditions typically operate at lower illumination and higher temperature than STC, which signif ...

2019

Influence of Light Soaking on Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells With Various Architectures

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Jean Cattin, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Laurie-Lou Senaud

In this article, we investigate the effect of prolonged light exposure on silicon heterojunction solar cells. We show that, although light exposure systematically improves solar cell efficiency in the case of devices using intrinsic and p-type layers with ...

2021

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

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, 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

Light trapping in solar cells: can periodic beat random?

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Marco Cantoni, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Corsin Battaglia, Jordi Escarre Palou, Karin Söderström

Theory predicts that periodic photonic nanostructures should outperform their random counterparts in trapping light in solar cells. However, the current certified world-record conversion efficiency for amorphous silicon thin-film solar cells, which strongl ...

2012

Impact of the Oxygen Flow during the Magnetron Sputtering Deposition on the Indium Tin Oxide thin films for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Jean Cattin, Akshath Raghu Shetty

We report on the optoelectronic properties of ITO layers deposited by DC sputtering, using different oxygen to total flow ratios [r(O-2) = O-2/Ar, ranging from 1% to 8%], for silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell application. The depth profiling of the v ...

IEEE2019

High-Efficiency Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Materials, Devices and Applications

Mathieu Gérard Boccard

Photovoltaic (PV) technology offers an economic and sustainable solution to the challenge of increasing energy demand in times of global warming. The world PV market is currently dominated by the homo-junction crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV technology based ...

2020