Designing High-Efficiency Thin Silicon Solar Cells Using Parabolic-Pore Photonic Crystals

Dielectric surface passivation for silicon solar cells: A review

(2017) Ruy S. Bonilla et al.   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

Single crystalline silicon solar cells with rib structure

(2017) Shuhei Yoshiba et al.   AIP Advances

All-Angle Invisibility Cloaking of Contact Fingers on Solar Cells by Refractive Free-Form Surfaces

(2017) Martin F. Schumann et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Silicon heterojunction solar cell with interdigitated back contacts for a photoconversion efficiency over 26%

(2017) Kunta Yoshikawa et al.   Nature Energy

Achieving an Accurate Surface Profile of a Photonic Crystal for Near-Unity Solar Absorption in a Super Thin-Film Architecture

(2016) Ping Kuang et al.   ACS Nano

High-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells: status and perspectives

(2016) Corsin Battaglia et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Light-trapping design for thin-film silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells

(2016) Stephen Foster et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Solar cell efficiency tables (version 49)

(2016) Martin A. Green et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

Silicon back contact solar cell configuration: A pathway towards higher efficiency

(2016) M.K. Mat Desa et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Cloaking of solar cell contacts at the onset of Rayleigh scattering

(2016) Etor San Román et al.   Scientific Reports

Influence of Chemical Composition and Structure in Silicon Dielectric Materials on Passivation of Thin Crystalline Silicon on Glass

(2015) Sonya Calnan et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

15.7% Efficient 10-μm-Thick Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells Using Periodic Nanostructures

(2015) Matthew S. Branham et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-trapping optimization in wet-etched silicon photonic crystal solar cells

(2015) Sergey Eyderman et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Cloaked contact grids on solar cells by coordinate transformations: designs and prototypes

(2015) Martin F. Schumann et al.   Optica

Heavily doped Si:P emitters of crystalline Si solar cells: recombination due to phosphorus precipitation

(2014) Byungsul Min et al.   Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters

>750 mV open circuit voltage measured on 50 μm thick silicon heterojunction solar cell

(2013) Stanislau Y. Herasimenka et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Solar light trapping in slanted conical-pore photonic crystals: Beyond statistical ray trapping

(2013) Sergey Eyderman et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Synergistic plasmonic and photonic crystal light-trapping: Architectures for optical up-conversion in thin-film solar cells

(2013) Khai Q. Le et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

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

(2013) Zachary C. Holman et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Passivated rear contacts for high-efficiency n-type Si solar cells providing high interface passivation quality and excellent transport characteristics

(2013) Frank Feldmann et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Reassessment of the Limiting Efficiency for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

(2013) Armin Richter et al.   IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Advanced Bulk Defect Passivation for Silicon Solar Cells

(2013) Brett J. Hallam et al.   IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Near perfect solar absorption in ultra-thin-film GaAs photonic crystals

(2013) Sergey Eyderman et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

High-quality surface passivation of silicon using native oxide and silicon nitride layers

(2012) Zahidur R. Chowdhury et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Finite difference discretization of semiconductor drift-diffusion equations for nanowire solar cells

(2012) Alexei Deinega et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS

Solar energy trapping with modulated silicon nanowire photonic crystals

(2012) Guillaume Demésy et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

High quality amorphous–crystalline silicon heterostructure prepared by grid-biased remote radio-frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition

(2012) Pratish Mahtani et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS

Efficient Light Trapping in Inverted Nanopyramid Thin Crystalline Silicon Membranes for Solar Cell Applications

(2012) Anastassios Mavrokefalos et al.   NANO LETTERS

Improved quantitative description of Auger recombination in crystalline silicon

(2012) Armin Richter et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

A new model of dispersion for metals leading to a more accurate modeling of plasmonic structures using the FDTD method

(2011) A. Vial et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

Solar cell efficiency tables (version 37)

(2010) Martin A. Green et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

Thermal stability of the Al2O3passivation on p-type silicon surfaces for solar cell applications

(2009) Jan Benick et al.   Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters

Light trapping and absorption optimization in certain thin-film photonic crystal architectures

(2008) Alongkarn Chutinan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Self-consistent optical parameters of intrinsic silicon at 300K including temperature coefficients

(2008) Martin A. Green   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS