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Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cell with Cell Area >1 cm

Christophe Ballif, Arnaud Walter, Stefaan De Wolf, Luc Fesquet, Jérémie Werner, Johannes Peter Seif, Björn Niesen, Ching-Hsun Weng

Monolithic perovskite/crystalline silicon tandem solar cells hold great promise for further performance improvement of well-established silicon photovoltaics; however, monolithic tandem integration is challenging, evidenced by the modest performances and s ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Properties of interfaces in amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunctions

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Christian Monachon, Stefaan De Wolf, Luc Fesquet

To study recombination at the amorphous/crystalline Si (a- Si:H/c-Si) heterointerface, the amphoteric nature of silicon (Si) dangling bonds is taken into account. Modeling interface recombination measured on various test structures provides insight into th ...

Wiley2010

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

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Stefaan De Wolf, Luc Fesquet

Crystalline silicon wafer (c-Si) can be extremely well passivated by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposited (PECVD) amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) films. As a result, on flat substrates, solar cells with very high open circuit voltage are readily obtained. O ...

2010

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

Christophe Ballif, Luc Fesquet

We use a new in-house, large area and automated deposition system: the usable deposition area is 410 × 520 mm with RF-frequency of 40 MHz. We deposit intrinsic a-Si:H layer on flat p-type or n-type c-Si wafers after performing an HF dip. The overall recomb ...

2009

Towards a better understanding of silicon heterojunction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Luc Fesquet

2009

Textured silicon heterojunction solar cells with over 700mV open-circuit voltage studied by transmission electron microscopy

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Christian Monachon, Stefaan De Wolf, Luc Fesquet

In this article, we report on the use of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) for the fabrication of high-performance textured amorphous/crystalline silicon (a-Si:H/c-Si) heterojunction (HJ) solar cells. Whereas classical thin-film characterization techn ...

2008

Heterojunction solar cell efficiency improvement on various c-Si substrates by interface recombination modelling

Christophe Ballif, Luc Fesquet

High efficiency Si heterojunction (HJ) solar cells must exhibit low interface recombination, as it limits the cell open circuit voltage (VOC). The study of the interface recombination of various a-Si:H/c-Si lifetime test samples gives insight into the reco ...

2007