Publications de Stephanie Essig

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

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Stephanie Essig

2018

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

Christophe Ballif, Stefaan De Wolf, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Stephanie Essig

2018

Numerical Simulation of Temperature Dependence of MoOx Based SHJ Solar Cell

Christophe Ballif, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Stephanie Essig

Transition metal oxides based high efficiency silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells have emerged as promising candidate due to their low manufacturing cost and avoidance of poisonous dopant gases. Temperature dependent J V curves in such solar cells cou ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2018

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

Microchannel contacting of crystalline silicon solar cells

Monica Morales Masis, Stephanie Essig

There is tremendous interest in reducing losses caused by the metal contacts in silicon photovoltaics, particularly the optical and resistive losses of the front metal grid. One commonly sought-after goal is the creation of high aspect-ratio metal fingers ...

Nature Research2017

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

Christophe Ballif, Antoine Descoeudres, Matthieu Despeisse, Loris Barraud, Stephanie Essig

Today's dominant photovoltaic technologies rely on single-junction devices, which are approaching their practical efficiency limit of 25-27%. Therefore, researchers are increasingly turning to multi-junction devices, which consist of two or more stacked su ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

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

Christophe Ballif, Antoine Descoeudres, Nicolas Badel, Antonin Faes, Jacques Levrat, Matthieu Despeisse, Loris Barraud, Bertrand Yves Paul Paviet-Salomon, Stephanie Essig

Combining a Si solar cell with a high-bandgap top cell reduces the thermalization losses in the short wavelength and enables theoretical 1-sun efficiencies far over 30%. We have investigated the fabrication and optimization of Si-based tandem solar cells w ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016