Search Results - "van Swaaij, René A.C.M.M."
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Designing optimized nano textures for thin-film silicon solar cells
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Combined Fabrication and Performance Evaluation of TOPCon Back‐Contact Solar Cells with Lateral Power Metal‐Oxide‐Semiconductor Field‐Effect Transistors on a Single Substrate
Published in Solar RRL (01-05-2024)“…COSMOS Device In article number 2300829, Nijen and co‐workers introduce the COSMOS device, denoting combined solar cell and metal‐oxide‐semiconductor…”
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Combined Fabrication and Performance Evaluation of TOPCon Back‐Contact Solar Cells with Lateral Power Metal‐Oxide‐Semiconductor Field‐Effect Transistors on a Single Substrate
Published in Solar RRL (01-05-2024)“…Nowadays, an increasing share of photovoltaic (PV) systems makes use of module‐ or submodule‐level power electronics (PE). Furthermore, PE is used in…”
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Quadruple-junction thin-film silicon-based solar cells with high open-circuit voltage
Published in Applied physics letters (11-08-2014)“…We have fabricated a-SiOx:H/a-Si:H/nc-Si:H/nc-Si:H quadruple-junction thin-film silicon-based solar cells (4J TFSSCs) to obtain high spectral utilization and…”
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Modulated surface textured glass as substrate for high efficiency microcrystalline silicon solar cells
Published in Solar energy materials and solar cells (01-02-2015)“…In this paper, we investigate three different procedures for making modulated surface textures (MST) on glass substrates and show the application of these…”
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Development of a‐SiOx:H solar cells with very high Voc × FF product
Published in Progress in photovoltaics (01-06-2015)“…In this study, deposition conditions for making a‐SiOx:H are investigated systematically in order to obtain a high band gap material. We found that at given…”
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Fabrication of double- and triple-junction solar cells with hydrogenated amorphous silicon oxide (a-SiOx:H) top cell
Published in Solar energy materials and solar cells (01-10-2015)“…In this study we investigate the potential of intrinsic a-SiOx:H, with a band gap of about 2.07eV, as absorber material in thin-film silicon solar cells. We…”
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Silicon nanocrystals: Novel synthesis routes for photovoltaic applications
Published in Physica status solidi. A, Applications and materials science (01-04-2013)“…Novel processes were developed for fabricating silicon nanocrystals and nanocomposite materials which could be used as absorbers in third generation…”
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Effect of Substrate Morphology Slope Distributions on Light Scattering, nc-Si:H Film Growth, and Solar Cell Performance
Published in ACS applied materials & interfaces (24-12-2014)“…Thin-film silicon solar cells are often deposited on textured ZnO substrates. The solar-cell performance is strongly correlated to the substrate morphology, as…”
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A novel way of texturing glass for microcrystalline silicon thin film solar cells application
Published in Progress in photovoltaics (01-10-2015)“…In this paper, we present a novel way of texturing glass facilitated by ZnO:Al thin film as sacrificial layer for thin film silicon solar cell application. We…”
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Quantification of Valleys of Randomly Textured Substrates as a Function of Opening Angle: Correlation to the Defect Density in Intrinsic nc-Si:H
Published in ACS applied materials & interfaces (17-08-2016)“…Optical and electrical properties of hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H) solar cells are strongly influenced by the morphology of underlying…”
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Optimizing Silicon Oxide Embedded Silicon Nanocrystal Inter-particle Distances
Published in Nanoscale research letters (01-12-2016)“…We demonstrate an analytical method to optimize the stoichiometry and thickness of multilayer silicon oxide films in order to achieve the highest density of…”
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Integration of Lateral Power MOSFETs into IBC c-Si Solar Cells with Poly-Si Passivating Contacts
Published in 2023 IEEE 50th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) (11-06-2023)“…Power electronics (PE) is essential for the optimal operation of photovoltaics (PV). An increasing share of PV systems makes use of module-level PE, and…”
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Optical Enhancement of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells With Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Carbide Emitter
Published in IEEE journal of photovoltaics (01-11-2014)“…In this paper, the electrical and optical properties of p-type hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC:H) are compared with p-type hydrogenated amorphous…”
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Optical and Electrical Simulation of μc-Si:H Solar Cells: Effect of Substrate Morphology and Crystalline Fraction
Published in IEEE journal of photovoltaics (01-01-2014)“…Hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) is an important material for high-efficiency multijunction solar cells. Due to its complex microstructural…”
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The Relation Between the Bandgap and the Anisotropic Nature of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon
Published in IEEE journal of photovoltaics (01-04-2012)“…The bandgap of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) is studied using a unique set of a-Si:H films deposited by means of three different processing…”
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Textured substrate for high-efficiency n-i-p μc-Si:H solar cells
Published in 2013 IEEE 39th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) (01-06-2013)“…In this paper, we investigate the light scattering properties of our randomly textured back reflector (BR) for n-i-p thin-film microcrystalline silicon…”
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Thin-film silicon technology for highly-efficient solar cells
Published in 2012 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM) (01-09-2012)“…Photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation is currently the fastest growing technology for energy production. PV technology is for more than 90% based on silicon…”
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