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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

Mechanical integrity of hybrid indium-free electrodes for flexible devices

Christophe Ballif, Yves Leterrier, Monica Morales Masis, Ali Dabirian, Fabien Paul Jacques Dauzou

Maintaining electrical conductivity, optical transparency, and mechanical integrity against bending and stretching are key requirements for flexible transparent electrodes. Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) are widely used thin film electrodes in optoel ...

Elsevier2016

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

Interplay of annealing temperature and doping in hole selective rear contacts based on silicon-rich silicon-carbide thin films

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Monica Morales Masis, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Philippe Wyss, Gizem Nogay, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Josua Andreas Stückelberger

We present a detailed optimization of a hole selective rear contact for p-type crystalline silicon solar cells which relies on full-area processes and provides full-area passivation. The passivating hole-contact is based on a layer stack comprising a chemi ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

c-texture versus a-texture low pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition ZnO films: Lower resistivity despite smaller grain size

Christophe Ballif, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Sylvain Nicolay, Monica Morales Masis, Laura Ding, Lorenzo Fanni, Arthur Brian Aebersold

Recently, it has been shown that it is possible to tune the morphology of zinc oxide films deposited by low-pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (LP-MOCVD) while preserving good electrical conductivity. Here a closer look is taken at films depos ...

Elsevier2014

Direct Imaging of Dopant Distribution in Polycrystalline ZnO Films

Christophe Ballif, Cécile Hébert, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Stéphane Laurent Escrig, Monica Morales Masis, Sylvain Nicolay, Martin Ledinsky, Arthur Brian Aebersold

Two fundamental requirements of transparent conductive oxides are high conductivity and low optical absorptance, properties strongly dependent on the free-carrier concentration of the film. The free carrier concentration is usually-tuned by the addition of ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Bridging the p-type transparent conductive materials gap: synthesis approaches for disperse valence band materials

Monica Morales Masis, Angela Nicole Fioretti

Transparent conductive materials (TCMs) with high p-type conductivity and broadband transparency have remained elusive for years. Despite decades of research, no p-type material has yet been found to match the performance of n-type TCMs. If developed, the ...

2020

An Indium-Free Anode for Large-Area Flexible OLEDs: Defect-Free Transparent Conductive Zinc Tin Oxide

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Monica Morales Masis, Ali Dabirian, Fabien Paul Jacques Dauzou

Flexible large-area organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) require highly conductive and transparent anodes for efficient and uniform light emission. Tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) is the standard anode in industry. However, due to the scarcity of indium, alt ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

APCVD of dual layer transparent conductive oxides for photovoltaic applications

Monica Morales Masis

We report the atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition (APCVD) of a dual layer transparent conductive oxide (TCO). This combines a fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) base layer with a fluorine doped zinc oxide (FZO) top layer, where we seek to utilise t ...

Elsevier2015

Tuning the porosity of zinc oxide electrodes: from dense to nanopillar films

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Monica Morales Masis, Björn Niesen, Lorenzo Fanni

Thin films with tunable porosity are of high interest in applications such as gas sensing and antireflective coatings. We report a facile and scalable method to fabricate ZnO electrodes with tuneable porosity. By adjusting the substrate temperature and rat ...

2015

In Situ Hall Effect Monitoring of Vacuum Annealing of In2O3:H Thin Films

Monica Morales Masis

Hydrogen doped In2O3 thin films were prepared by room temperature sputter deposition with the addition of H2O to the sputter gas. By subsequent vacuum annealing, the films obtain high mobility up to 90 cm(2)/Vs. The films were analyzed in situ by X-ray pho ...

MDPI2015

Enhancing the optoelectronic properties of amorphous zinc tin oxide by subgap defect passivation: A theoretical and experimental demonstration

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Monica Morales Masis, Jakub Holovsky, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Federica Landucci

The link between sub-bandgap states and optoelectronic properties is investigated for amorphous zinc tin oxide (a-ZTO) thin films deposited by RF sputtering. a-ZTO samples were annealed up to 500 °C in oxidizing, neutral, and reducing atmospheres before ch ...

American Physical Society2017

Metallization of Si heterojunction solar cells by nanosecond laser ablation and Ni-Cu plating

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Matthieu Despeisse, Monica Morales Masis, Ali Dabirian, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Jan-Willem Alexander Schüttauf

A key step in industrialization of photovoltaics (PV) is the development of low-cost and large-area metallization processes to substitute the standard screen-printing process of silver paste. Thus Cu and Ni metallization processes enabled by laser patterni ...

Elsevier2017

Optical Evaluation of the Rear Contacts of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells by Coupled Electromagnetic and Statistical Ray-Optics Modeling

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Stefaan De Wolf, Monica Morales Masis, Ali Dabirian

High-efficiency crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells increasingly feature sophisticated electron and hole contacts aimed at minimizing electronic losses. At the rear of photovoltaic devices, such contacts-usually consisting of stacks of functional layers ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Tuning the Optoelectronic Properties of ZnO:Al by Addition of Silica for Light Trapping in High-Efficiency Crystalline Si Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Björn Niesen, Monica Morales Masis, Ali Dabirian

Highly transparent electrodes with a well-tuned refractive index are essential for a wide range of optoelectronic devices, such as light emitting diodes and solar cells. Here, it is shown that the transparency of ZnO:Al can be improved and its refractive i ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Increasing Polycrystalline Zinc Oxide Grain Size by Control of Film Preferential Orientation

Christophe Ballif, Cécile Hébert, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Monica Morales Masis, Sylvain Nicolay, Arthur Brian Aebersold, Lorenzo Fanni

We investigate the structural evolution of polycrystalline zinc oxide films grown by low pressure metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. The goal is to achieve larger grains-leading to higher charge carrier mobility from lower grain boundary density-by c ...

American Chemical Society2015

High performance amorphous Zn-Sn-O: impact of composition, microstructure, and thermal treatments in the optoelectronic properties

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

Zinc and tin oxides are both earth-abundant materials with demonstrated applicability as electrodes in several optoelectronic devices. The presence of grain boundaries in these polycrystalline films generally limits the electron mobility. By a combinatoria ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017

Tailoring the surface morphology of zinc oxide films for high-performance micromorph solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Monica Morales Masis, Laura Ding, Lorenzo Fanni

Self-textured zinc oxide polycrystalline films prepared by metalorganic low-pressure chemical vapor deposition combine excellent transparency, conductivity and light-scattering ability when used as electrodes for high-efficiency thin-film silicon solar cel ...

Elsevier2014

Low-Temperature High-Mobility Amorphous IZO for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Monica Morales Masis, Jakub Holovsky

Parasitic absorption in the transparent conductive oxide (TCO) front electrode is one of the limitations of silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells efficiency. To avoid such absorption while retaining high conductivity, TCOs with high electron mobility ar ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Microchannel contacting of crystalline silicon solar cells

Monica Morales Masis, Stephanie Essig

There is tremendous interest in reducing losses caused by the metal contacts in silicon photovoltaics, particularly the optical and resistive losses of the front metal grid. One commonly sought-after goal is the creation of high aspect-ratio metal fingers ...

Nature Research2017