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1 cm2 CH3NH3PbI3 mesoporous solar cells with 17.8% steady-state efficiency by tailoring front FTO electrodes

2-D Periodic and Random-on-Periodic Front Textures for Tandem Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

22% efficient dopant-free interdigitated back contact silicon solar cells

22.5% efficient silicon heterojunction solar cell with molybdenum oxide hole collector

35 years of photovoltaics: Analysis of the TISO‐10‐kW solar plant, lessons learnt in safety and performance—Part 1

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9.4% Efficient Amorphous Silicon Solar Cell on High Aspect-Ratio Glass Microcones

scientific article published on 20 March 2014

>21% Efficient Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells on n- and p-Type Wafers Compared

A New View of Microcrystalline Silicon: The Role of Plasma Processing in Achieving a Dense and Stable Absorber Material for Photovoltaic Applications

A Physically-Based Electrical Model for Lithium-Ion Cells

A passivating contact concept compatible with a short thermal treatment

A passivating contact for silicon solar cells formed during a single firing thermal annealing

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

A-Si:H/c-Si heterojunctions: a future mainstream technology for high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells?

Absorption Enhancement in Solar Cells With Periodic Interface Textures of Asymmetric Shape

Accurate Determination of Photovoltaic Cell and Module Peak Power From Their Current–Voltage Characteristics

Advanced intermediate reflector layers for thin film silicon tandem solar cells

Advances in crystalline silicon heterojunction research and opportunities for low manufacturing costs

Alleviating power quality issues when integrating PV into built areas: Design and control of DC microgrids

Alternative procedure for the fabrication of close-spaced sublimated CdTe solar cells

Amorphous Si thin film based photocathodes with high photovoltage for efficient hydrogen production.

scientific article published on 9 October 2013

Amorphous Silicon Based Particle Detectors

Amorphous Silicon/Crystalline Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Amorphous gallium oxide grown by low-temperature PECVD

Amorphous silicon based betavoltaic devices

Amorphous silicon oxide window layers for high-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells

Amorphous silicon-based micro-channel plate detectors with high multiplication gain

Amorphous silicon-based microchannel plates

Amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells — Analysis of lateral conduction through the inversion layer

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

scholarly article by Jan-Willem Schüttauf et al published February 2015 in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Amorphous/Crystalline Silicon Interface Passivation: Ambient-Temperature Dependence and Implications for Solar Cell Performance

Amorphous/crystalline silicon interface defects induced by hydrogen plasma treatments

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

Analysis of lateral transport through the inversion layer in amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells

Analysis of lithium-ion cells performance, through novel test protocol for stationary applications

scholarly article published June 2017

Analysis of onset of dislocation nucleation during nanoindentation and nanoscratching of InP

Angular behavior of the absorption limit in thin film silicon solar cells

Anodic degradation of ZnO on soda-lime glass

Application-independent protocol for predicting the efficiency of lithium-ion battery cells in operations

Asymmetric band offsets in silicon heterojunction solar cells: Impact on device performance

Asymmetric intermediate reflector for tandem micromorph thin film silicon solar cells

Atomic-Layer-Deposited Transparent Electrodes for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopic investigation of silicon heterojunction solar cells

scientific article published in July 2015

Automated Quantification of PV Hosting Capacity In Distribution Networks Under User-Defined Control and Optimisation Procedures

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Axial p-n Junctions Realized in Silicon Nanowires by Ion Implantation

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

Back-Contacted Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells With Efficiency >21%

article published in 2014

Back-Contacted Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Optical-Loss Analysis and Mitigation

article published in 2015

Boosting the efficiency of III-V/Si tandem solar cells

Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV): Review, Potentials, Barriers and Myths

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CH(3)NH(3)PbI(3) perovskite / silicon tandem solar cells: characterization based optical simulations.

scientific article published on April 2015

Carrier transport and sensitivity issues in heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer solar cells on N-type crystalline silicon: A computer simulation study

Characterisation of rough reflecting substrates incorporated into thin-film silicon solar cells

Characterization of a thick layer a-Si:H pixel detector with TFA technology using a scanning electron microscope

Charge Collection in Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells: Relation to the Nanoscale Elemental Distribution

Charge collection in amorphous silicon solar cells: Cell analysis and simulation of high-efficiency pin devices

Class AAA LED-Based Solar Simulator for Steady-State Measurements and Light Soaking

Cleavage Fracture of Brittle Semiconductors from the Nanometre to the Centimetre Scale

Closing the Cell-to-Module Efficiency Gap: A Fully Laser Scribed Perovskite Minimodule With 16% Steady-State Aperture Area Efficiency

Comparison and optimization of randomly textured surfaces in thin-film solar cells

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Comparison of LPCVD and sputter-etched ZnO layers applied as front electrodes in tandem thin-film silicon solar cells

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

Comparison of amorphous silicon absorber materials: Light-induced degradation and solar cell efficiency

article published in 2013

Complex Refractive Index Spectra of CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Thin Films Determined by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Spectrophotometry

scientific article published on 15 December 2014

Complex Refractive Indices of Cesium–Formamidinium-Based Mixed-Halide Perovskites with Optical Band Gaps from 1.5 to 1.8 eV

Compositional study of defects in microcrystalline silicon solar cells using spectral decomposition in the scanning transmission electron microscope

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Compressive-shear adhesion characterization of polyvinyl-butyral and ethylene-vinyl acetate at different curing times before and after exposure to damp-heat conditions

Control algorithm for a residential photovoltaic system with storage

Control of CVD-deposited ZnO films properties through water/DEZ ratio: Decoupling of electrode morphology and electrical characteristics

Control of LPCVD ZnO growth modes for improved light trapping in thin film silicon solar cells

Conventional and 360 degree electron tomography of a micro-crystalline silicon solar cell

Copper and Transparent-Conductor Reflectarray Elements on Thin-Film Solar Cell Panels

Corrosion testing of solar cells: Wear-out degradation behavior

scientific article published in 2022

Cross-sectional atomic force microscopy imaging of polycrystalline thin films

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Cross-sectional electrostatic force microscopy of thin-film solar cells

Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells With Coannealed Electron- and Hole-Selective SiC x Passivating Contacts

Crystallinity and texture promotion in WS2 thin films

Current Losses at the Front of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Current matching optimization in high-efficiency thin-film silicon tandem solar cells

Damage at hydrogenated amorphous/crystalline silicon interfaces by indium tin oxide overlayer sputtering

Deformation mechanisms of silicon during nanoscratching

Demonstrating the high V oc potential of PEDOT:PSS/c-Si heterojunctions on solar cells

Design of periodic nano- and macro-scale textures for high-performance thin-film multi-junction solar cells

Design of perovskite/crystalline-silicon monolithic tandem solar cells

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Determination of Raman emission cross-section ratio in hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon

Development of micromorph tandem solar cells on flexible low-cost plastic substrates

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Dicing of gallium–arsenide high performance laser diodes for industrial applications

Dicing of gallium–arsenide high performance laser diodes for industrial applications

Diffraction and absorption enhancement from textured back reflectors of thin film solar cells

Direct Contact to TCO with SmartWire Connection Technology

Direct Imaging of Dopant Distribution in Polycrystalline ZnO Films.

scientific article published on 2 February 2017

Economic viability for residential battery storage systems in grid-connected PV plants

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Editorial to the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics (SiliconPV 2016)

Effect of Cooling Press on the Optical Transmission Through Photovoltaic Encapsulants

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Effect of debris on the silicon wafering for solar cells

Effect of the thin-film limit on the measurable optical properties of graphene

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Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells

Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cell with Cell Area >1 cm(2).

scientific article published on 19 December 2015

Efficient Near-Infrared-Transparent Perovskite Solar Cells Enabling Direct Comparison of 4-Terminal and Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Cells

Efficient light management scheme for thin film silicon solar cells via transparent random nanostructures fabricated by nanoimprinting

Efficient nanocoax-based solar cells

Electrical transport in boron-doped polycrystalline zinc oxide thin films

Electrically flat/optically rough substrates for efficiencies above 10% in n-i-p thin-film silicon solar cells

Electrothermal Finite-Element Modeling for Defect Characterization in Thin-Film Silicon Solar Modules

Elemental distribution and charge collection at the nanoscale on perovskite solar cells

Engineering of Thin-Film Silicon Materials for High Efficiency Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Enhanced light trapping in realistic thin film solar cells using one-dimensional gratings

Enhanced mobility of hydrogenated MO-LPCVD ZnO contacts for high performances thin film silicon solar cells

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Enhancement of microcrystalline n-i-p solar cell performance via use of pre-covering layers and H2 treatment

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

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 95 no. 24, June 2017

Environmental stability of high-mobility indium-oxide based transparent electrodes

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Erratum: “Influence of the ZnO buffer on the guided mode structure in Si/ZnO/Ag multilayers” [J. Appl. Phys. 106, 044502 (2009)]

scholarly article published in Journal of Applied Physics

Erratum: “Modeling of light scattering from micro- and nanotextured surfaces” [J. Appl. Phys. 107, 044504 (2010)]

scholarly article published in Journal of Applied Physics

Ethanol-enriched low-pressure chemical vapor deposition ZnO bilayers: Properties and growth—A potential electrode for thin film solar cells

Exceedingly Cheap Perovskite Solar Cells Using Iron Pyrite Hole Transport Materials

Excitation of guided-mode resonances in thin film silicon solar cells

Experimental Evaluation of the Light Trapping Potential of Optical Nanostructures for Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

Experimental measurement of lateral transport in the inversion layer of silicon heterojunction solar cells

Experimental study of flat light-scattering substrates in thin-film silicon solar cells

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

Fabrication and characterization of monolithically integrated microchannel plates based on amorphous silicon

scientific article published on 04 April 2014

Facile preparation of micron- and nano-scale textured master for nano-imprinting front electrode in thin-film silicon tandem cells with improved light trapping

scholarly article by Jia Li et al published May 2015 in Solar Energy

Fast and Nondestructive Detection on the EVA Gel Content in Photovoltaic Modules by Optical Reflection

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Field Performance versus Standard Test Condition Efficiency of Tandem Solar Cells and the Specific Case of Perovskites/Silicon Devices

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

Flexible micromorph tandem a-Si/μc-Si solar cells

Fourier light scattering model for treating textures deeper than the wavelength.

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Fracture strength and Young’s modulus of ZnO nanowires

From randomly self-textured substrates to highly efficient thin film solar cells: Influence of geometric interface engineering on light trapping, plasmonic losses and charge extraction

article published in 2017

Fully textured monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 25.2% power conversion efficiency

article published in 2018

Geometric light trapping for high efficiency thin film silicon solar cells

Growth Model of MOCVD Polycrystalline ZnO

article published in 2009

High Spatial Resolution of Thin-Film-on-ASIC Particle Detectors

High fidelity transfer of nanometric random textures by UV embossing for thin film solar cells applications

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

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High rate deposition of microcrystalline silicon with silicon oxide doped layers: Highlighting the competing roles of both intrinsic and extrinsinc defects on the cells performances

High-Bandgap Perovskite Materials for Multijunction Solar Cells

High-Efficiency Amorphous Silicon Solar Cell on a Periodic Nanocone Back Reflector

High-Efficiency P-I-N Microcrystalline and Micromorph Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells Deposited on LPCVD Zno Coated Glass Substrates

High-Stable-Efficiency Tandem Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cell With Low-Refractive-Index Silicon-Oxide Interlayer

High-efficiency Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: A Review

High-efficiency microcrystalline silicon single-junction solar cells

High-efficiency perovskite/silicon heterojunction tandem solar cells

High-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells: From physics to production lines

High-performance hetero-junction crystalline silicon photovoltaic technology

High-performance tandem silicon solar cells on F:SnO2

High-rate deposition of microcrystalline silicon in a large-area PECVD reactor and integration in tandem solar cells

Highly Conductive and Broadband Transparent Zr-Doped In2O3 as Front Electrode for Solar Cells

Highly reflective nanotextured sputtered silver back reflector for flexible high-efficiency n–i–p thin-film silicon solar cells

article published in 2011

Highly transparent ZnO bilayers by LP-MOCVD as front electrodes for thin-film micromorph silicon solar cells

Highly transparent modulated surface textured front electrodes for high-efficiency multijunction thin-film silicon solar cells

Hole selective MoO x contact for silicon heterojunction solar cells

Hole-Collection Mechanism in Passivating Metal-Oxide Contacts on Si Solar Cells: Insights From Numerical Simulations

Humid environment stability of low pressure chemical vapor deposited boron doped zinc oxide used as transparent electrodes in thin film silicon solar cells

Hybrid axial and radial Si-GaAs heterostructures in nanowires

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Hybrid sequential deposition process for fully textured perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells

Hydrogen plasma treatment for improved conductivity in amorphous aluminum doped zinc tin oxide thin films

scholarly article by Monica Morales-Masis et al published September 2014 in APL Materials

Hydrogen-doped indium oxide/indium tin oxide bilayers for high-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells

scholarly article by L. Barraud et al published August 2013 in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

ITO/MoOx/a-Si:H(i) Hole-Selective Contacts for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Degradation Mechanisms and Cell Integration

Imaging the Spatial Evolution of Degradation in Perovskite/Si Tandem Solar Cells After Exposure to Humid Air

Impact of metal silicide precipitate dissolution during rapid thermal processing of multicrystalline silicon solar cells

Impact of organic overlayers on a-Si:H/c-Si surface potential

Impact of secondary gas-phase reactions on microcrystalline silicon solar cells deposited at high rate

Improved Optics in Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells with a Nanocrystalline Silicon Recombination Junction

Improved amorphous/crystalline silicon interface passivation by hydrogen plasma treatment

Improved ramp-rate and self consumption ratio in a renewable-energy-based DC micro-grid

Improvement of the open circuit voltage by modifying the transparent indium-tin oxide front electrode in amorphous n-i-p solar cells

Improving metal reflectors by suppressing surface plasmon polaritons: a priori calculation of the internal reflectance of a solar cell

In Situ TEM Analysis of Organic-Inorganic Metal-Halide Perovskite Solar Cells under Electrical Bias

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In situ silicon oxide based intermediate reflector for thin-film silicon micromorph solar cells

article published in 2007

In-Situ Monitoring of Moisture Ingress in PV Modules Using Digital Humidity Sensors

In-situ Determination of Moisture Diffusion Properties of PV Module Encapsulants Using Digital Humidity Sensors

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

Increasing short-circuit current in silicon heterojunction solar cells

Increasing the efficiency of silicon heterojunction solar cells and modules by light soaking

Influence of pressure and silane depletion on microcrystalline silicon material quality and solar cell performance

Influence of the ZnO buffer on the guided mode structure in Si/ZnO/Ag multilayers

Influence of the substrate geometrical parameters on microcrystalline silicon growth for thin-film solar cells

Infrared laser-based monitoring of the silane dissociation during deposition of silicon thin films

Infrared light management in high-efficiency silicon heterojunction and rear-passivated solar cells

article by Zachary C. Holman et al published 7 January 2013 in Journal of Applied Physics

Innovative Device Architecture for High Efficiency Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells

Input silane concentration effect on the a-Si:H to μc-Si:H transition width

Integrated thinking for photovoltaics in buildings

Interdigitated back contact silicon heterojunction solar cells featuring an interband tunnel junction enabling simplified processing

Interface passivation for 31.25%-efficient perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells

scientific article published on 06 July 2023

Internal electric field and fill factor of amorphous silicon solar cells

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

Kinetics of creation and of thermal annealing of light-induced defects in microcrystalline silicon solar cells

Kinetics ofa-Si:H bulk defect anda-Si:H/c-Si interface-state reduction

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 85 no. 11, March 2012

LPCVD ZnO-based intermediate reflector for micromorph tandem solar cells

Large-area Hybrid Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells with Ni/Cu Plated Front Contacts

Laser applications in thin-film photovoltaics

Laser-Scribing Patterning for the Production of Organometallic Halide Perovskite Solar Modules

Laser-based plasma diagnostics for PECVD of silicon thin films

Latest Developments of High-Efficiency Micromorph Tandem Silicon Solar Cells Implementing Innovative Substrate Materials and Improved Cell Design

Light Trapping in Solar Cells: Can Periodic Beat Random?

scientific article published on 07 March 2012

Light absorption in textured thin film silicon solar cells: A simple scalar scattering approach versus rigorous simulation

Light and durable: Composite structures for building-integrated photovoltaic modules

Light harvesting schemes for high efficiency thin film silicon solar cells

Light management in thin film silicon solar cells

Light scattering at nano-textured surfaces in thin film silicon solar cells

Light trapping in solar cells at the extreme coupling limit

Light trapping in solar cells: Analytical modeling

Light trapping in solar cells: When does a Lambertian scatterer scatter Lambertianly?

Light trapping in thin-film solar cells measured by Raman spectroscopy

Light-induced Voc increase and decrease in high-efficiency amorphous silicon solar cells

Light-induced performance increase of silicon heterojunction solar cells

Limit of light coupling strength in solar cells

Limiting factors in the fabrication of microcrystalline silicon solar cells and microcrystalline/amorphous (‘micromorph’) tandems

article by F. Meillaud et al published October 2009 in Philosophical Magazine

Local series resistance mapping of silicon solar cells by microwave photoconductivity decay measurements

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

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Low-temperature plasma-deposited silicon epitaxial films: Growth and properties

Low-temperature processes for passivation and metallization of high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells

Manufacturing 100-µm-thick silicon solar cells with efficiencies greater than 20% in a pilot production line

Measurement of the Open-Circuit Voltage of Individual Subcells in a Dual-Junction Solar Cell

Measurement of the bending strength of vapor-liquid-solid grown silicon nanowires

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Mechanical integrity of hybrid indium-free electrodes for flexible devices

Mechanisms of wafer sawing and impact on wafer properties

Metal-free crystalline silicon solar cells in module

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

Methods to evaluate the effect of water ingress: towards ultra-reliable PV modules

scholarly article published 24 September 2013

Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cells: Theory and Diagnostic Tools

Microcrystalline and micromorph device improvements through combined plasma and material characterization techniques

Microcrystalline silicon solar cells with passivated interfaces for high open-circuit voltage

Microcrystalline silicon solar cells: effect of substrate temperature on cracks and their role in post-oxidation

Micromorph Solar Cell Optimization using a ZnO Layer as Intermediate Reflector

Micromorph tandem solar cells grown at high rate with in-situ intermediate reflector in industrial KAI PECVD reactors

Micromorph thin-film silicon solar cells with transparent high-mobility hydrogenated indium oxide front electrodes

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Mixed phase silicon oxide layers for thin-film silicon solar cells

Mixed-phase p-type silicon oxide containing silicon nanocrystals and its role in thin-film silicon solar cells

Model for a-Si:H/c-Si interface recombination based on the amphoteric nature of silicon dangling bonds

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 76 no. 3, July 2007

Model-based Quantitative Assessment of Crystallinity and Parasitic Absorption in Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Modeling of light scattering from micro- and nanotextured surfaces

article published in 2010

Modification of textured silicon wafer surface morphology for fabrication of heterojunction solar cell with open circuit voltage over 700 mV

Multi-occupancy buildings as micro-grids: an asset for integrating photovoltaics in power systems

Multifunctional Antireflection Coatings for High-Efficient Light Harvesting in Photovoltaic Devices

Multiscale Transparent Electrode Architecture for Efficient Light Management and Carrier Collection in Solar Cells

scientific article published on 16 February 2012

N/I buffer layer for substrate microcrystalline thin film silicon solar cell

Nanocrystalline Silicon Carrier Collectors for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells and Impact on Low-Temperature Device Characteristics

article published in 2016

Nanocrystalline silicon oxide stacks for silicon heterojunction solar cells for hot climates

Nanoimprint Lithography for High-Efficiency Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

scientific article published on 28 December 2010

Nanometer- and Micrometer-Scale Texturing for High-Efficiency Micromorph Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

Nanomoulding of transparent zinc oxide electrodes for efficient light trapping in solar cells

Nanoscopic trigonal pyramidal crystallites in WS2−x sputtered thin films: a scanning tunnelling microscopy study of initial growth

New Generation Transparent LPCVD ZnO Electrodes for Enhanced Photocurrent in Micromorph Solar Cells and Modules

New Route for "Cold-Passivation" of Defects in Tin-Based Oxides

New concept of PECVD reactor for efficient production of silicon heterojunction solar cells

New guidelines for a more accurate extraction of solar cells and modules key data from their current-voltage curves

New progress in the fabrication of n–i–p micromorph solar cells for opaque substrates

Nitride layer screening as carrier-selective contacts for silicon heterojunction solar cells

Notice of Removal Microcrystalline silicon carrier collectors for silicon heterojunction solar cells and impact on low-temperature device characteristics

Numerical simulation of temperature dependence of MoOx based SHJ solar cell

On the Interplay Between Microstructure and Interfaces in High-Efficiency Microcrystalline Silicon Solar Cells

One-type-fits-all-systems: Strategies for preventing potential-induced degradation in crystalline silicon solar photovoltaic modules

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

Optical and electrical properties of semiconducting WS2 thin films: From macroscopic to local probe measurements

article published in 1999

Optical emission spectroscopy to diagnose powder formation in SiH 4 -H 2 discharges

Optical management in high-efficiency thin-film silicon micromorph solar cells with a silicon oxide based intermediate reflector

Optical properties of anodically degraded ZnO

Optical transmission as a fast and non-destructive tool for determination of ethylene-co-vinyl acetate curing state in photovoltaic modules

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Optimised Heat Pump Management for Increasing Photovoltaic Penetration into the Electricity Grid

article by Cristian Sánchez et al published 25 April 2019 in Energies

Optimization of ZnO Front Electrodes for High-Efficiency Micromorph Thin-Film Si Solar Cells

Optimization of amorphous silicon thin film solar cells for flexible photovoltaics

Optimization of the Asymmetric Intermediate Reflector Morphology for High Stabilized Efficiency Thin n-i-p Micromorph Solar Cells

Optimization of thin film silicon solar cells on highly textured substrates

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

Opto-electronic properties of rough LP-CVD ZnO:B for use as TCO in thin-film silicon solar cells

Organic-inorganic halide perovskite/crystalline silicon four-terminal tandem solar cells

scientific article published on December 2014

Organic–Inorganic Halide Perovskites: Perspectives for Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells

Organometallic Halide Perovskites: Sharp Optical Absorption Edge and Its Relation to Photovoltaic Performance

scientific article published on 11 March 2014

Origin of the Voc enhancement with a p-doped nc-SiOx:H window layer in n-i-p solar cells

Parasitic Absorption Reduction in Metal Oxide-Based Transparent Electrodes: Application in Perovskite Solar Cells

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

Parasitic absorption effects in metallic back reflectors with texture

Parasitic absorption in the rear reflector of a silicon solar cell: Simulation and measurement of the sub-bandgap reflectance for common dielectric/metal reflectors

Passivated interfaces in fluorinated microcrystalline silicon thin film solar cells

Passivating contacts for silicon solar cells with 800 °C stability based on tunnel-oxide and highly crystalline thin silicon layer

Passivating electron contact based on highly crystalline nanostructured silicon oxide layers for silicon solar cells

Performance and Transient Behavior of Vertically Integrated Thin-film Silicon Sensors

scientific article published on 8 August 2008

Perovskite/Perovskite/Silicon Monolithic Triple-Junction Solar Cells with a Fully Textured Design

Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells: Marriage of Convenience or True Love Story? - An Overview

article by Jérémie Werner et al published 11 September 2017 in Advanced materials interfaces

Phosphorous-Doped Silicon Carbide as Front-Side Full-Area Passivating Contact for Double-Side Contacted c-Si Solar Cells

scholarly article by Andrea Ingenito et al published March 2019 in IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Photocatalytic degradation of phenol by TiO2 thin films prepared by sputtering

scholarly article by D Dumitriu et al published March 2000 in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Photocurrent Spectroscopy of Perovskite Layers and Solar Cells: A Sensitive Probe of Material Degradation.

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Photocurrent enhancement in thin film amorphous silicon solar cells with silver nanoparticles

Photocurrent increase in n-i-p thin film silicon solar cells by guided mode excitation via grating coupler

article published in 2010

Photolithography-free interdigitated back-contacted silicon heterojunction solar cells with efficiency >21%

Plasmonic absorption in textured silver back reflectors of thin film solar cells

Plasmonic silicon solar cells: impact of material quality and geometry

Plastic and Elastic Strain Fields in GaAs/Si Core–Shell Nanowires

scientific article published on 06 March 2014

Polycrystalline ZnO: B grown by LPCVD as TCO for thin film silicon solar cells

Post-deposition treatment of microcrystalline silicon solar cells for improved performance on rough superstrates

Practical silicon deposition rules derived from silane monitoring during plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition

Preface: SiliconPV 2018: the 8th International Conference on Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics

Probing Photocurrent Nonuniformities in the Subcells of Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

scientific article

Profilometry of thin films on rough substrates by Raman spectroscopy

scientific article published on 06 December 2016

Progression towards high efficiency perovskite solar cells via optimisation of the front electrode and blocking layer

Properties of interfaces in amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunctions

Properties of mixed phase silicon-oxide-based passivating contacts for silicon solar cells

Proton-induced degradation of thin-film microcrystalline silicon solar cells

Quantifying and Modeling the Impact of Interconnection Failures on the Electrical Performance of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Modules

Radiation hardness of amorphous silicon particle sensors

Raising the one-sun conversion efficiency of III–V/Si solar cells to 32.8% for two junctions and 35.9% for three junctions

Raman Spectroscopy of Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskites

scientific article published on 16 January 2015

Realization of GaInP/Si Dual-Junction Solar Cells With 29.8% 1-Sun Efficiency

article published in 2016

Realization of high efficiency micromorph tandem silicon solar cells on glass and plastic substrates: Issues and potential

Reassessment of cell to module gains and losses: Accounting for the current boost specific to cells located on the edges

Recent advances and remaining challenges in thin-film silicon photovoltaic technology

Recombination Analysis of Phosphorus-Doped Nanostructured Silicon Oxide Passivating Electron Contacts for Silicon Solar Cells

Record Infrared Internal Quantum Efficiency in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells With Dielectric/Metal Rear Reflectors

Record fast thermal processing of 17.5 efficient silicon solar cells

Reduction of the phosphorous cross-contamination in n–i–p solar cells prepared in a single-chamber PECVD reactor

Reflectance Improvement by Thermal Annealing of Sputtered Ag/ZnO Back Reflectors in a-Si:H Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells

Relation between substrate surface morphology and microcrystalline silicon solar cell performance

Relaxing the Conductivity/Transparency Trade-Off in MOCVD ZnO Thin Films by Hydrogen Plasma

Resistive interlayer for improved performance of thin film silicon solar cells on highly textured substrate

article published in 2010

Resonances and absorption enhancement in thin film silicon solar cells with periodic interface texture

article published in 2011

Resonant Absorption Enhancement in Solar Cells With Periodically Textured Interfaces

Review of amorphous silicon based particle detectors: the quest for single particle detection

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Review: Progress in solar cells from hydrogenated amorphous silicon

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Robust Glass-Free Lightweight Photovoltaic Modules With Improved Resistance to Mechanical Loads and Impact

Scanning Laser-Beam-Induced Current Measurements of Lateral Transport Near-Junction Defects in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Selective etching of n-InP(100) triggered at surface dislocations induced by nanoscratching

Self-Patterned Nanoparticle Layers for Vertical Interconnects: Application in Tandem Solar Cells

scientific article published on 11 August 2014

Silane depletion dependent ion bombardment and material quality of microcrystalline silicon deposited by VHF-PECVD

Silicon Filaments in Silicon Oxide for Next-Generation Photovoltaics

scientific article published on 30 January 2012

Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells With Copper-Plated Grid Electrodes: Status and Comparison With Silver Thick-Film Techniques

article published in 2014

Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells on Quasi-mono Wafers

Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Towards Low-cost High-Efficiency Industrial Devices and Application to Low-concentration PV

Silicon heterojunction solar cell with passivated hole selective MoOx contact

Silicon heterojunction solar cells with plated contacts for low to medium concentration photovoltaics

Silicon heterojunction solar cells: Recent technological development and practical aspects - from lab to industry

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Silicon oxide buffer layer at the p–i interface in amorphous and microcrystalline silicon solar cells

Silicon oxide treatment to promote crystallinity of p-type microcrystalline layers for silicon heterojunction solar cells

Silicon-Rich Silicon Carbide Hole-Selective Rear Contacts for Crystalline-Silicon-Based Solar Cells

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Silver thick-film contacts on highly doped n-type silicon emitters: Structural and electronic properties of the interface

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

Simple processing of back-contacted silicon heterojunction solar cells using selective-area crystalline growth

Simultaneous realization of light distribution and trapping in micromorph tandem solar cells using novel double-layered antireflection coatings

Smoothening intermediate reflecting layer for tandem thin-film silicon solar cells

Soiling and value of cleaning for low-tilt PV systems in temperate climates: a Swiss case study

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Solar Hydrogen Production by Amorphous Silicon Photocathodes Coated with a Magnetron Sputter Deposited Mo2C Catalyst

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

Solar cell efficiency enhancement via light trapping in printable resonant dielectric nanosphere arrays

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Solar glass with industrial porous SiO2 antireflection coating: measurements of photovoltaic module properties improvement and modelling of yearly energy yield gain

Solar-to-Hydrogen Production at 14.2% Efficiency with Silicon Photovoltaics and Earth-Abundant Electrocatalysts

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Spectrally resolved nonlinearity and temperature dependence of perovskite solar cells

Sputtered rear electrode with broadband transparency for perovskite solar cells

Stabilization of the rhombohedral polytype in MoS2 and WS2 microtubes: TEM and AFM study

Stable Dopant-Free Asymmetric Heterocontact Silicon Solar Cells with Efficiencies above 20%

Stencil-Nanopatterned Back Reflectors for Thin-Film Amorphous Silicon n-i-p Solar Cells

Stencil-nanopatterned back reflectors for thin-film amorphous silicon n-i-p solar cells

Strategies for Doped Nanocrystalline Silicon Integration in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Stretched-exponential a-Si:H∕c-Si interface recombination decay

Structural, optical, and electrical properties of silicon nanowires for solar cells

Study of CdTe/CdS solar cells using CSS CdTe deposited at low temperature

Submicron contacts for electrical characterization of semiconducting WS2 thin films

Substrate dependent stability and interplay between optical and electrical properties in μc-Si:H single junction solar cells

Super-Lambertian photocurrent-generation in solar cells with periodically textured interfaces

Superhard, Antireflective Texturized Coatings Based on Hyperbranched Polymer Composite Hybrids for Thin-Film Solar Cell Encapsulation

Surface and Ultrathin-layer Absorptance Spectroscopy for Solar Cells

Survey of dopant-free carrier-selective contacts for silicon solar cells

TCOs for nip thin film silicon solar cells

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

Technological status of plasma-deposited thin-film silicon photovoltaics

Temperature dependence of hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cell performances

The Role of Water in the Reversible Optoelectronic Degradation of Hybrid Perovskites at Low Pressure

The amazing improvement of silicon heterojunction technology: ready for a true mass market launch

scholarly article published June 2018

The boron-tailing myth in hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells

The development of high performance SnO2:F as TCOs for thin film silicon solar cells

The effect of cooling press on the encapsulation properties of crystalline photovoltaic modules: residual stress and adhesion

The impact of silicon solar cell architecture and cell interconnection on energy yield in hot & sunny climates

The silane depletion fraction as an indicator for the amorphous/crystalline silicon interface passivation quality

Thermo-mechanical stability of lightweight glass-free photovoltaic modules based on a composite substrate

Thin-Film Silicon Triple-Junction Solar Cells on Highly Transparent Front Electrodes With Stabilized Efficiencies up to 12.8%

Thin-film limit formalism applied to surface defect absorption

scientific article published in December 2014

Thin-film silicon solar cells applying optically decoupled back reflectors

Thin-film silicon triple-junction solar cell with 12.5% stable efficiency on innovative flat light-scattering substrate

Three-dimensional amorphous silicon solar cells on periodically ordered ZnO nanocolumns

Time evolution of surface defect states in hydrogenated amorphous silicon studied by photothermal and photocurrent spectroscopy and optical simulation

Towards an optimum silicon heterojunction solar cell configuration for high temperature and high light intensity environment

Transition between grain boundary and intragrain scattering transport mechanisms in boron-doped zinc oxide thin films

scholarly article by Jérôme Steinhauser et al published 2 April 2007 in Applied Physics Letters

Transparent Electrodes for Efficient Optoelectronics

Transparent Electrodes in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Influence on Contact Passivation

Transparent conductive oxide / encapsulant interface characterization following Damp Heat exposure

Transparent electrodes in silicon heterojunction solar cells: Influence on carrier recombination

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

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

UV imprinting for thin film solar cell application

UV-nano-imprint lithography technique for the replication of back reflectors for n-i-p thin film silicon solar cells

Ultra-Light Amorphous Silicon Cell for Space Applications

Ultra-high quality surface passivation of crystalline silicon wafers in large area parallel plate reactor at 40 MHz

Unlinking absorption and haze in thin film silicon solar cells front electrodes

Variable light biasing method to measure component I–V characteristics of multi-junction solar cells

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Very fast light-induced degradation ofa-Si:H/c-Si(100) interfaces

scholarly article in Physical Review B, vol. 83 no. 23, June 2011

When PV modules are becoming real building elements: White solar module, a revolution for BIPV

Window layer with p doped silicon oxide for high Voc thin-film silicon n-i-p solar cells

Wire-sawing processes: parametrical study and modeling

Zinc blende–wurtzite polytypism in nanocrystalline ZnO films

Zinc tin oxide as high-temperature stable recombination layer for mesoscopic perovskite/silicon monolithic tandem solar cells

ZnO transparent conductive oxide for thin film silicon solar cells

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

“Thin silicon solar cells: A path to 35% shockley-queisser limits”, a DOE funded FPACE II project