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Silicon (Si), with its indirect bandgap, is a non-ideal absorber. Thus, various strategies to boost silicon solar cells' efficiency, including advanced texturing, multilayer anti-reflecting coating, and rear reflectors are utilized. Dielectrics, deposited ...

ELSEVIER2023

III-V Nitride Semiconductors Deposited At Low Temperature For Photovoltaic Applications

Jonathan Emanuel Thomet

This thesis reports on the study and use of low temperature processes for the deposition of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) thin films in order to alleviate some of the present drawbacks of its monolitic deposition on silicon for photovoltaic applications. ...

EPFL2023

In Situ Reflectometry and Diffraction Investigation of the Multiscale Structure of p-Type Polysilicon Passivating Contacts for c-Si Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Andrea Ingenito, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset

The integration of passivating contacts based on a highly doped polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) layer on top of a thin silicon oxide (SiOx) layer has been identified as the next step to further increase the conversion efficiency of current mainstream cry ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

SiNx and AlOx Nanolayers in Hole Selective Passivating Contacts for High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells

Xinya Niu, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset

The recombination of photogenerated charge carriers at metal-semiconductor interfaces remains a major source of efficiency loss in photovoltaic cells. Here, we present SiNx and AlOx nanolayers as promising interface dielectrics to enable high efficiency ho ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

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 ...

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Bulk Defects and Hydrogenation Kinetics in Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells With Fired Passivating Contacts

Christophe Ballif, Philippe Wyss, Franz-Josef Haug, Mario Joe Lehmann, Père Roca i Cabarrocas, Andrea Ingenito, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset

In this article, the effect of the various processing steps during the fabrication of c-Si/SiOx/SiCx fired passivating contacts on the silicon bulk lifetime is studied, and the kinetics of defect deactivation by hydrogenation is investigated. It is found t ...

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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

Near-junction microfluidic cooling for high power-density GaN-on-Si electronics: A wafer, device, packaging, and system-level investigation

Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp

Electrification of the energy section, from generation to end-use, plays an essential role in reducing global CO2 emission. Innovations in power electronics are required to increase conversion efficiency and power density. Gallium nitride (GaN) transistors ...

EPFL2022

Low-Power Artificial Neural Network Perceptron Based on Monolayer MoS2

Andras Kis, Aleksandra Radenovic, Zhenyu Wang, Guilherme Migliato Marega, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi

Machine learning and signal processing on the edge are poised to influence our everyday lives with devices that will learn and infer from data generated by smart sensors and other devices for the Internet of Things. The next leap toward ubiquitous electron ...

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Wireless neuromodulation with porous silicon

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Wireless optoelectronic devices are fabricated by controlling the porosity of p-type silicon, enabling in vivo efficient, non-genetic optoelectronic modulation of peripheral nerve activity. ...

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Material Development for Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Photovoltaics

Peter Joseph Fiala

The developed world is built on the fact that energy is readily available and functionally infinite. The electricity from the wall, the gas at the station, and the heat in our homes are reliable and low-cost. But this comfort is so far only possible throug ...

EPFL2022

Impact of rapid thermal processing on bulk and surface recombination mechanisms in FZ silicon with fired passivating contacts

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Mario Joe Lehmann, Andrea Ingenito, Sofia Libraro, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset

We investigate bulk and interface recombination in crystalline silicon with p-type fired passivating contacts. These consist of a chemical oxide and an in-situ doped layer of SiCx with low carbon content. Following a rapid thermal annealing to activate the ...

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