TY - JOUR
T1 - High-Efficiency Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
T2 - Materials, Devices and Applications
AU - Liu, Yuqiang
AU - Li, Yajuan
AU - Wu, Yiliang
AU - Yang, Guangtao
AU - Mazzarella, Luana
AU - Procel Moya, Paul
AU - Tamboli, Adele C.
AU - Weber, Klaus
AU - Boccard, Mathieu
AU - Isabella, Olindo
AU - Yang, Xinbo
AU - Sun, Baoquan
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Photovoltaic (PV) technology offers an economic and sustainable solution to the challenge of increasing energy demand in times of global warming. The world PV market is currently dominated by the homo-junction crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV technology based on high temperature diffused p-n junctions, featuring a low power conversion efficiency (PCE). Recent years have seen the successful development of Si heterojunction technologies, boosting the PCE of c-Si solar cells over 26%. This article reviews the development status of high-efficiency c-Si heterojunction solar cells, from the materials to devices, mainly including hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) based silicon heterojunction technology, polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) based carrier selective passivating contact technology, metal compounds and organic materials based dopant-free passivating contact technology. The application of silicon heterojunction solar cells for ultra-high efficiency perovskite/c-Si and III-V/c-Si tandem devices is also reviewed. In the last, the perspective, challenge and potential solutions of silicon heterojunction solar cells, as well as the tandem solar cells are discussed.
AB - Photovoltaic (PV) technology offers an economic and sustainable solution to the challenge of increasing energy demand in times of global warming. The world PV market is currently dominated by the homo-junction crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV technology based on high temperature diffused p-n junctions, featuring a low power conversion efficiency (PCE). Recent years have seen the successful development of Si heterojunction technologies, boosting the PCE of c-Si solar cells over 26%. This article reviews the development status of high-efficiency c-Si heterojunction solar cells, from the materials to devices, mainly including hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) based silicon heterojunction technology, polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) based carrier selective passivating contact technology, metal compounds and organic materials based dopant-free passivating contact technology. The application of silicon heterojunction solar cells for ultra-high efficiency perovskite/c-Si and III-V/c-Si tandem devices is also reviewed. In the last, the perspective, challenge and potential solutions of silicon heterojunction solar cells, as well as the tandem solar cells are discussed.
KW - Amorphous silicon
KW - Device physics
KW - Halide Perovskite
KW - Heterojunction silicon solar cells
KW - Organic Semiconductor
KW - Transition metal oxide
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mser.2020.100579
DO - 10.1016/j.mser.2020.100579
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85089695209
SN - 0927-796X
VL - 142
SP - 1
EP - 41
JO - Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports
JF - Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports
M1 - 100579
ER -
