Search Results - "Kirner, Simon"
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Nanocrystalline n-Type Silicon Oxide Front Contacts for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Photocurrent Enhancement on Planar and Textured Substrates
Published in IEEE journal of photovoltaics (01-01-2018)“…The conversion efficiency of silicon heterojunction solar cells is limited by current losses mainly in the front layer stack. In order to minimize these…”
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On the Plasma Chemistry During Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition of Microcrystalline Silicon Oxides
Published in Plasma processes and polymers (01-01-2015)“…The advanced opto‐electronic properties of microcrystalline silicon oxide (µc‐SiOx:H) thin film layers deposited by means of plasma enhanced chemical vapor…”
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Plasma monitoring and PECVD process control in thin film silicon-based solar cell manufacturing
Published in EPJ Photovoltaics (01-01-2014)“…A key process in thin film silicon-based solar cell manufacturing is plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) of the active layers. The deposition…”
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PECVD Intermediate and Absorber Layers Applied in Liquid-Phase Crystallized Silicon Solar Cells on Glass Substrates
Published in IEEE journal of photovoltaics (01-11-2014)“…Liquid-phase crystallized silicon absorber layers have been applied in heterojunction solar cells on glass substrates with 10.8% conversion efficiency and an…”
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Infrared Light Management Using a Nanocrystalline Silicon Oxide Interlayer in Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Heterojunction Tandem Solar Cells with Efficiency above 25
Published in Advanced energy materials (11-04-2019)“…Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells are attractive for their potential for boosting cell efficiency beyond the crystalline silicon (Si) single‐junction…”
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Energy yield of bifacial textured perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaic modules
Published in Solar energy materials and solar cells (01-05-2020)“…Bifacial perovskite/crystalline silicon (c-Si) tandem photovoltaic (PV) modules that harvest albedo radiation are a promising strategy to further enhance the…”
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Shingling meets perovskite-silicon heterojunction tandem solar cells
Published in Solar energy materials and solar cells (01-12-2023)“…The current work focuses on the question if shingling can be a suitable interconnection method for perovskite-silicon tandem (PVST) cells. Cell-to-module (CTM)…”
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Nanocrystalline silicon emitter optimization for Si‐HJ solar cells: Substrate selectivity and CO2 plasma treatment effect
Published in Physica status solidi. A, Applications and materials science (01-02-2017)“…We investigated hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon (nc‐Si:H) films as doped emitter layers for silicon heterojunction solar cells. Firstly, we focused on the…”
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Low-temperature metallization & interconnection for silicon heterojunction and perovskite silicon tandem solar cells
Published in Solar energy materials and solar cells (01-10-2023)“…In this work, we present results on various low-temperature approaches for the metallization and interconnection of high-efficiency solar cells as silicon…”
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Architectures for scalable integrated photo driven catalytic devices-A concept study
Published in International journal of hydrogen energy (07-12-2016)“…Architectures with various degrees of integration are investigated for water splitting devices using the energy of light for fuel production. The many…”
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Quadruple-junction solar cells and modules based on amorphous and microcrystalline silicon with high stable efficiencies
Published in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (01-08-2015)“…Quadruple junction solar cells and modules are presented, which consist of hydrogenated amorphous (a-Si:H) and microcrystalline silicon (µc-Si:H) in the…”
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Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells With Nanocrystalline Silicon Oxide Emitter: Insights Into Charge Carrier Transport
Published in IEEE journal of photovoltaics (01-11-2015)“…We recently demonstrated how the short-circuit current density of an a-Si:H/c-Si heterojunction solar cell can be significantly improved to above 40 mA/cm 2 by…”
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Emitter Patterning for Back-Contacted Si Heterojunction Solar Cells Using Laser Written Mask Layers for Etching and Self-Aligned Passivation (LEAP)
Published in IEEE journal of photovoltaics (01-07-2016)“…A novel emitter patterning method for back-contacted Si heterojunction solar cells is presented, which combines laser processing and wet etching of a mask…”
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Nanocrystalline silicon emitter optimization for Si-HJ solar cells: Substrate selectivity and CO sub(2) plasma treatment effect
Published in Physica status solidi. A, Applications and materials science (01-02-2017)“…We investigated hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H) films as doped emitter layers for silicon heterojunction solar cells. Firstly, we focused on the…”
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Nanocrystalline silicon emitter optimization for Si-HJ solar cells: Substrate selectivity and CO 2 plasma treatment effect: Nanocrystalline silicon emitter optimization for Si-HJ solar cells
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Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition process optimization for thin film silicon tandem junction solar cells
Published in Thin solid films (02-05-2014)“…Industry has previously established a 10% stable total module efficiency 1.1×1.3m2 thin film silicon tandem junction (TJ) module manufacturing baseline. A…”
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Optimization of PECVD process for ultra-thin tunnel SiOx film as passivation layer for silicon heterojunction solar cells
Published in 2016 IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) (01-06-2016)“…Ultra-thin silicon oxide (a-SiO x :H) films have been grown by means of plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) to replace the standard hydrogenated…”
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Backside contacted solar cells with heterojunction emitters and laser fired absorber contacts for crystalline silicon on glass
Published in 2016 IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) (01-06-2016)“…Backside contacted cells were fabricated on p- and n-type, liquid phase crystallized silicon on glass. The heterojunction emitter and transparent contacting…”
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Implications of TCO Topography on Intermediate Reflector Design for a-Si/μc-Si Tandem Solar Cells-Experiments and Rigorous Optical Simulations
Published in IEEE journal of photovoltaics (01-01-2014)“…The influence of the transparent conducting oxide (TCO) topography was studied on the performance of a silicon oxide intermediate reflector layer (IRL) in…”
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Nanocrystalline silicon oxide interlayer in monolithic perovskite/silicon heterojunction tandem solar cells with total current density >39 mA/cm2
Published in 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) (A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC & 34th EU PVSEC) (01-06-2018)“…Silicon heterojunction solar cells are implemented as bottom cells in monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Commonly they are processed with a…”
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