High-resistivity silicon wafers offer superior efficiency potential but are highly sensitive to edge recombination and mechanical damage, limiting their commercial use compared to more robust standard ...
Hydrogen can be either beneficial to silicon solar technologies, passivating bulk and surface defects, or detrimental, contributing to light- and elevated-temperature-induced degradation (LeTID) and ...
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Record 27% efficiency: China’s back-contact solar cells break barriers with silicon wafers
Despite their clear efficiency advantages, high-resistivity, lightly doped silicon wafers have seen limited adoption ...
A newly developed metasurface-based silicon antireflective coating combines rectangular and cylindrical meta-atom geometries. The metasurface achieves just 5 percent reflection, compared to ~50 ...
Patents have been filed for an innovative silicon solar cell coating that could increase efficiency, reduce heat, and extend panel lifetimes using singlet fission, according to pv magazine.
The 1cm² cells, pictured, achieved a record-breaking 27.06% power conversion efficiency. Image: University of Sydney. Scientists from the University of Sydney have created what they claim is the ...
Trinasolar has also increased the power efficiency for its perovskite-silicon tandem modules to 829W. Image: Trinasolar. Chinese solar manufacturer Trinasolar has reportedly achieved a 30.6% ...
Source: “Lattice strain conversion suppresses ion migration to stabilize wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells,” by Yaru Du, Shanshan Du, Xiaobo Zhang, Hao Wang, Niqian Du, Xiaoyi Hou, Kaikai Liu, and ...
Without a significant reduction in silver content, the global demand for photovoltaics to ensure a sustainable, climate-neutral energy system cannot be met. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for ...
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