Publications de Monica Morales Masis

Three-dimensional in situ imaging of single-grain growth in polycrystalline In2O3:Zr films

Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Monica Morales Masis

Understanding grain morphology and kinetics of solid-phase crystallization is important for controlling the functional properties of polycrystalline materials. Here, in situ coherent X-ray diffraction imaging and transmission electron microscopy elucidate ...

SPRINGERNATURE2022

Bridging the p-type transparent conductive materials gap: synthesis approaches for disperse valence band materials

Monica Morales Masis, Angela Nicole Fioretti

Transparent conductive materials (TCMs) with high p-type conductivity and broadband transparency have remained elusive for years. Despite decades of research, no p-type material has yet been found to match the performance of n-type TCMs. If developed, the ...

2020

Paths for maximal light incoupling and excellent electrical performances in silicon heterojunction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Jean Cattin, Raphaël Monnard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Laurie-Lou Senaud, Monica Morales Masis, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Jan Haschke, Olivier Denis Dupré, Julie Amandine Dreon, Sihua Zhong, Angela Nicole Fioretti

We discuss here optical losses in silicon heterojunction solar cells and strategies to minimize them. Optical losses originate from most non-crystalline-silicon layers involved in the solar cell. A breakdown for typical values is shown evidencing that supp ...

IEEE2019

Highly Conductive and Broadband Transparent Zr-Doped In2O3 as Front Electrode for Solar Cells (vol 8, pg 1202, 2018)

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Loris Barraud, Raphaël Monnard, Jakub Holovsky, Monica Morales Masis, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

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

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Monica Morales Masis, Sihua Zhong, Weiliang Wu

In recent years, considerable efforts have been devoted to developing novel electron-selective materials for crystalline Si(c-Si) solar cells with the attempts to simplify the fabrication process and improve efficiency. In this study, ZnO:Al (AZO) is co-sp ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Zr-doped indium oxide electrodes: Annealing and thickness effects on microstructure and carrier transport

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Monica Morales Masis, Federica Landucci, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro

Zr-doped indium oxide (In2O3:Zr) has been shown to satisfy the requirements of low resistance, wide band gap, and high infrared transmittance for application as a front contact in broadband solar cells. However, the reduction of indium usage in front of tr ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Toward Annealing-Stable Molybdenum-Oxide-Based Hole-Selective Contacts For Silicon Photovoltaics

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jérémie Werner, Jonas Geissbühler, Monica Morales Masis, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Stephanie Essig, Julie Amandine Dreon

Molybdenum oxide (MoOX) combines a high work function with broadband optical transparency. Sandwiched between a hydrogenated intrinsic amorphous silicon passivation layer and a transparent conductive oxide, this material allows a highly efficient hole‐sele ...

2018

Amorphous gallium oxide grown by low-temperature PECVD

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Stefaan De Wolf, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Monica Morales Masis, Eiji Kobayashi, Daniel Vresilovic, Nathan Jacques Rodkey

2018

Carrier scattering mechanisms limiting mobility in hydrogen-doped indium oxide

Laura Ding, Martial Duchamp, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Fabien Paul Jacques Dauzou, Monica Morales Masis

2018

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

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Loris Barraud, Raphaël Monnard, Jakub Holovsky, Monica Morales Masis, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro

2018

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

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Monica Morales Masis, Yonghui Lee, Federica Landucci, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro

2018

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

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Monica Morales Masis, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Andrea Ingenito

Passivating contacts are indispensable for achieving high conversion efficiency in crystalline-silicon solar cells. Their realization and integration into a convenient process flow have become crucial research objectives. Here, we report an alternative pas ...

2018

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

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Philippe Wyss, Franz-Josef Haug, Monica Morales Masis, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Josua Andreas Stückelberger, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Andrea Ingenito

We present electron- and hole-selective passivating contacts based on wet-chemically grown interfacial SiOx and overlying in-situ doped silicon carbide (SiCx) deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. After annealing at 850 degrees C, excelle ...

2018

What Limits Mobility in Hydrogenated Indium Oxide?

Laura Ding, Martial Duchamp, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Fabien Paul Jacques Dauzou, Monica Morales Masis

Understanding the electron scattering mechanisms dominating transport in high and low mobility transparent conducting oxides can provide insight into improving the properties of this crucial photovoltaic device layer. Contributions from ionized impurity sc ...

IEEE2018

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

Christophe Ballif, Laura Ding, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Soo-Jin Moon, Arnaud Walter, Davide Sacchetto, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Jérémie Werner, Florent Sahli, Loris Barraud, Raphaël Monnard, Monica Morales Masis, Gianluca Cattaneo, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Björn Niesen, Gizem Nogay, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger, Peter Joseph Fiala, Chien-Jen Yang, Fan Fu

Tandem solar cells that feature a high-bandgap perovskite cell on top of a lower bandgap silicon cell have the potential to reach efficiencies > 30%. Here, we present a versatile hybrid deposition method that yields conformal perovskite cells directly on t ...

IEEE2018

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

Christophe Ballif, Philippe Wyss, Franz-Josef Haug, Matthieu Despeisse, Monica Morales Masis, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Josua Andreas Stückelberger, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro

We present a detailed optimization of a hole selective rear contact for p-type crystalline silicon solar cells which relies on full-area processes and provides full-area passivation. The passivating hole-contact is based on a layer stack comprising a chemi ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Direct Imaging of Dopant Distribution in Polycrystalline ZnO Films

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Sylvain Nicolay, Arthur Brian Aebersold, Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Stéphane Laurent Escrig, Monica Morales Masis, Martin Ledinsky

Two fundamental requirements of transparent conductive oxides are high conductivity and low optical absorptance, properties strongly dependent on the free-carrier concentration of the film. The free carrier concentration is usually-tuned by the addition of ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

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

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Martial Duchamp, Jakub Holovsky, Monica Morales Masis, Federica Landucci, Oscar Esteban Rucavado Leandro

The link between sub-bandgap states and optoelectronic properties is investigated for amorphous zinc tin oxide (a-ZTO) thin films deposited by RF sputtering. a-ZTO samples were annealed up to 500 °C in oxidizing, neutral, and reducing atmospheres before ch ...

American Physical Society2017

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

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Ali Dabirian, Matthieu Despeisse, Jan-Willem Alexander Schüttauf, Monica Morales Masis, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon

A key step in industrialization of photovoltaics (PV) is the development of low-cost and large-area metallization processes to substitute the standard screen-printing process of silver paste. Thus Cu and Ni metallization processes enabled by laser patterni ...

Elsevier2017

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

Christophe Ballif, Ali Dabirian, Stefaan De Wolf, Franz-Josef Haug, Monica Morales Masis

High-efficiency crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells increasingly feature sophisticated electron and hole contacts aimed at minimizing electronic losses. At the rear of photovoltaic devices, such contacts-usually consisting of stacks of functional layers ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017