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The formation of stable copper-silicide (Cu3Si) interfaces is crucial for cost-effective, high-efficiency solar cells. However, copper's diffusivity and electromigration issues pose challenges for contact stability. This study employs…
Laser-enhanced contact optimization (LECO) has emerged as an important method for simultaneously reducing contact resistivity and metallization-induced recombination in advanced crystalline silicon solar cells, thereby enabling concurrent…
Copper fire-through metallization is a cost-effective alternative to Ag counterpart for industrial high efficiency solar cells. The fire through dielectric metallization relies on belt speed, which dictates the ramp up and ramp down rates…
The present work critically investigates the influence of low melting glasses on the fabrication of metal contacts, with the goal of advancing applications of bismuth based oxide glass and screen printed silver contacts for use in…
Numerical simulation of a solar cell can provide various information that can be useful to maximize its power conversion efficiency (PCE). In that respect we carried out a set of numerical simulation using AFORS-HET simulation program.…
Recent studies have investigated novel strategies to further improve the limited Voc of CdTe solar cells via increased carrier lifetime and doping density of CdTe thin films. Among various metal oxides, aluminum oxide (Al2O3) is a promising…
Photovoltaic (PV) cells have become one of the most promising renewable energy technologies. To make PV more competitive with incumbent technologies, higher power output densities are needed. One promising approach is to add bifaciality to…
The surface states of the active TiO2 layer is crucial while fabricating an efficient solar cell. This work experimentally analyses the effect of exposing TiO2 based electron transport layer (ETL) to the ultraviolet-ozone (UV-O3) and…
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,…
Though the common metal electrode-based perovskite solar cells have achieved a power conversion efficiency of >25%, they also play a crucial role in accelerating the degradation of the cells. In this study, we investigated phase transition…
YBCO films were successfully prepared on biaxially textured Ag{110}<211> substrates by using pulsed laser deposition. X-ray diffraction results showed that the degree of preferential orientation of Ag{110}<211> substrates varied with…
The batch fermentation process, inoculated by pulsed electric field (PEF) treated wine yeasts (S. cerevisiae Actiflore F33), was studied. PEF treatment was applied to the aqueous yeast suspensions (0.12 % wt.) at the electric field…
A mathematical model based on classical species balance equation has been developed to explain the experimental observation on E.Coli cell-killing in a batch reactor and to extract information on cell-killing mechanism. Maximum likelihood…
Additive Manufacturing (AM) has enabled the fabrication of metallic cellular materials that are of interest in the design of lightweight impact resistant structures. However, there is a need to understand the interactions between: (i) the…
The P+ {\alpha}-Si /N+ polycrystalline solar cell is molded using the AMPS-1D device simulator to explore the new high efficiency thin film poly-silicon solar cell. In order to analyze the characteristics of this device and the thickness of…
It was aimed to determine whether plasma processing could contribute to enhanced capacitance and energy density of activated carbon electrode based electrochemical capacitors, through the formation of additional surface charges. While an…
Theoretically and experimentally we have proved the existence of optimal thickness of the porous layer used as an anti-reflection coating in solar cells. We have taken into account the joint mechanisms of generation and recombination of…
The p-type amorphous/ n-type crystalline silicon (P+ a-Si/N+ c-Si) heterojunction was simulated for developing the solar cells with high conversion efficiency and low cost. The characteristic of such cells with different work function of…
Agrivoltaics (AV) is an emerging technology having symbiotic benefits for food-energy-water needs of the growing world population and an inherent resilience against climate vulnerabilities. An agrivoltaic system must optimize…