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High-quality van der Waals epitaxial CdS was used as a buffer layer. • Epitaxial CdS layer reduced the interface defects and interfacial diffusions. • Flexible Sb 2 Se 3 solar cells with an efficiency of 7.15% was obtained. Epitaxial CdS buffer layer enabled no V OC degradation.
Efficient and stable flexible Sb2Se3 thin film solar cells enabled by an epitaxial CdS buffer layer …
High-quality van der Waals epitaxial CdS was used as a buffer layer. • Epitaxial CdS layer reduced the interface defects and interfacial diffusions. • Flexible Sb 2 Se 3 solar cells with an efficiency of 7.15% was obtained. Epitaxial CdS buffer layer enabled no V OC degradation.
Achieving high efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells by applying high hydrogen content amorphous silicon as epitaxial-free buffer layers ...
HR-TEM images of SHJ solar cells (a) without i1 buffer layer and the inset was obtained from the box area shows the epitaxial layer structure after magnified (b) with i1 layer on condition C. Fig. 4 shows minority carrier lifetimes of devices with a structure of i-a-Si:H/n-c-Si/i-a-Si:H under different process conditions, which gives direct information of …
Special paper Process damage free thin-film GaAs solar cells by epitaxial liftoff with GaInP window layer …
We present flexible thin-film GaAs solar cells fabricated on thermoplastic substrates by a low-pressure cold-welding and epitaxial lift-off process. The use of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film as a flexible substrate enables cold welding (130 C) …
High-quality epitaxial foils, obtained by a layer transfer process, for integration in back-contacted solar cells …
Foil creation by lifting off a thin layer of a high quality silicon substrate is one of the promising substitutes for wafer sawing to create substrates thinner than 100 μm. The porous silicon-based layer transfer process is a well known method to obtain high quality foils. Despite a number of convincing lab-based solar cell show-cases, there is no …
Epitaxial lift-off method for GaAs solar cells with high Al content AlGaAs window layer …
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6641/acb3f0 Corpus ID: 256168227 Epitaxial lift-off method for GaAs solar cells with high Al content AlGaAs window layer @article{Paulauskas2023EpitaxialLM, title={Epitaxial lift-off method for GaAs solar cells with high Al content AlGaAs window layer}, author={Tadas Paulauskas and V Strazdienė …
Lift-off of silicon epitaxial layers for solar cell applications
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.1997.653936 Corpus ID: 122774217 Lift-off of silicon epitaxial layers for solar cell applications @article{Weber1997LiftoffOS, title={Lift-off of silicon epitaxial layers for solar cell applications}, author={Klaus J. Weber and Kylie R. Catchpole and Matthew Stocks and Andrew Blakers}, journal={Conference Record of the Twenty Sixth IEEE …
Epitaxial growth and layer-transfer techniques for heterogeneous …
To reduce epitaxial defects and threading dislocations, various epitaxial growth methods have been developed for heteroepitaxy of highly lattice-mismatched …
Thin silicon solar cells using epitaxial lateral overgrowth structure
Thin Si solar cell with epitaxial lateral overgrowth (ELO) structure described in this paper should demonstrate higher voltage. PC-1D program has been used to study the open circuit voltage and efficiency as a function of the thin Si thickness and light trapping. According to the simulation results, high voltage can be obtained even without light trapping on the …
Epitaxial Silicon Solar Cells
Epitaxial Silicon Solar Cells 31 efficiencies. In order to overcome the problem this material is used as a cheap p+-type substrate, on which a thin p-type epitaxial layer is formatted. Epitaxial layer from pure Si is deposited, by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on
Epitaxial lift-off process for gallium arsenide substrate …
Epitaxial lift-off process enables the separation of III–V device layers from gallium arsenide substrates and has been ... The layers of III–V solar cells were grown on a 2″ N-type GaAs ...
Epitaxially Grown p‐type Silicon Wafers Ready for Cell …
using epitaxially grown layers ''EpiWafers'' on reusable substrates with a stack of porous silicon detachment layers, offers a significant material-, energy- and …
Epitaxial 1D electron transport layers for high-performance perovskite solar cells
We demonstrate high-performance perovskite solar cells with excellent electron transport properties using a one-dimensional (1D) electron transport layer (ETL). The 1D array-based ETL is comprised of 1D SnO2 nanowires (NWs) array grown on a F:SnO2 transparent conducting oxide substrate and rutile TiO2 nanosh
Multiple growths of epitaxial lift-off solar cells from a single InP …
We demonstrate multiple growths of flexible, thin-film indium tin oxide-InP Schottky-barrier solar cells on a single InP wafer via epitaxial lift-off (ELO). Layers that protect the InP parent wafer surface during the ELO process are subsequently removed by selective wet-chemical etching, with the active solar cell layers transferred to a thin, …
Visualizing the interfacial-layer-based epitaxial growth process …
formation of interfacial-layer in the epitaxial-growth present an attractive universality in the sequential ... Tian, B. et al. Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power ...
Epitaxial thin-film Si solar cells
Epitaxial cells on highly doped monocrystalline Si substrates have been reported by several groups to demonstrate the efficiency potential of the epitaxial solar cell approach (see e.g. [63], [64], [65] for CVD-grown layers …
Epitaxial Lift-Off of Large-Area GaAs Thin-Film Multi-Junction Solar Cells …
thin, AlAs release layer (~5 nm). The solar cell epitaxial layers are then deposited, followed by application of a thick (1-2 mil) flexible metal carrier layer. The wafer is then immersed in a ...
Signal Components and Impedance Spectroscopy of Potential …
1 · A silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell with the attractive and widely used atomic layer deposited (ALD)-ZnO/n-CdS/p-Si configuration is examined in this work to learn …
Epitaxial and quasiepitaxial growth of halide perovskites: New …
Epitaxial growth is a key technique in developing modern electronics requiring highly ordered materials and has long since revolutionized the semiconducting industry. 39 Impressive examples are the applications of silicon and III–V materials (e.g., GaAs, 40,41 GaN, 42–44 AlInP, 2 GaInP, 45–51 and AlGaInP 3,32,52–55) in …
Photon confinement in high-efficiency, thin-film III–V solar cells obtained by epitaxial …
Using the epitaxial lift-off (ELO) technique, a III–V device structure can be separated from its GaAs substrate by selective wet etching of a thin release layer. The thin-film structures ...
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The first is the wafer-equivalent epitaxial solar cell where the epitaxial layer is still attached to the p + substrate on which it is grown [1]. The second is the layer transferred solar cell ...
Silicon heterojunction solar cell: a new buffer Layer concept with …
These results demonstrate that epitaxial silicon can be successfully used to passivate interface defects, allowing for an open circuit voltage gain of more than 50 mV compared …
Achieving high efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells by applying high hydrogen content amorphous silicon as epitaxial-free buffer layers ...
High efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cell with no epitaxial growth. • Appling a high hydrogen content a-Si:H film as epitaxial-free buffer layer. • The high hydrogen content a-Si:H film shows superior passivation quality. • Correlation between hydrogen content of a
Novel Epitaxial Lift-Off for Flexible, Inexpensive GaAs Solar Cells
Epitaxial lift-off (ELO) is an efficient method to greatly reduce the cost of GaAs photovoltaics without sacrificing their performance. However, the use of strong acids to remove the sacrificial layer in the conventional ELO method restricts the reusability of the substrate and adds extra substrate polishing costs. Here, we report a novel method of …
Epitaxial thin-film Si solar cells
Most types of thin-film solar cells imply a radical departure from the dominant bulk crystalline Si technology. This is not the case for epitaxial thin-film solar cells. In this technology, a high quality Si layer is deposited epitaxially on a low-cost Si substrate (e.g. cast Upgraded Metallurgical Grade silicon or high-throughput Si ribbons) …
Multiple growths of epitaxial lift-off solar cells from a single InP …
We demonstrate multiple growths of flexible, thin-film indium tin oxide-InP Schottky-barrier solar cells on a single InP wafer via epitaxial lift-off (ELO). Lay Kyusang Lee, Kuen-Ting Shiu, Jeramy D. Zimmerman, Christopher K. Renshaw, Stephen R. Forrest; Multiple growths of epitaxial lift-off solar cells from a single InP substrate.
Epitaxially Grown p‐type Silicon Wafers Ready for Cell …
We demonstrate the high quality and purity of epitaxially grown silicon layers from our CVD batch reactor allowing for epitaxial layers suited for fabrication of …
Multiple growths of epitaxial lift-off solar cells from a single InP …
We demonstrate multiple growths of flexible, thin-film indium tin oxide-InP Schottky-barrier solar cells on a single InP wafer via epitaxial lift-off (ELO). Layers that protect the InP parent wafer surface during the ELO process are subsequently removed by selective wet ...
GaAs photovoltaics and optoelectronics using releasable multilayer epitaxial assemblies | Nature
layer for an NIR detector (yellow) and one layer for a single junction solar cell (blue). The ... Schermer, J. J. et al. Thin-film GaAs epitaxial life-off solar cells for space applications. Prog ...
Epitaxial lift-off of InGaAs solar cells from InP substrate using a …
Fabrication of InGaAs solar cells via epitaxial lift-off is demonstrated. Abstract. In this work we present a new epitaxial lift-off (ELO) approach based on the use …
Epitaxial lift-off process for GaAs solar cells controlled by InGaAs …
Abstract. Epitaxial lift-off (ELO) techniques enable the development of thin-film III–V solar cell devices that are flexible and lightweight. To this end, we report an …
Impact and Role of Epitaxial Growth in Metal Halide Perovskite …
Epitaxial growth technology has garnered widespread attention in the field of perovskite solar cells for its potential to produce high-quality crystals with preferred orientations and superior photoelectric properties. However, achieving rational epitaxial …
Thin crystalline silicon solar cells based on epitaxial films grown …
efficiency of heterojunctions solar cells[4–6]. Nevertheless, we have shown that if the interface between the epitaxial layer (epi -layer) and the a Si:H emitter is sharp enough, then high efficiency cells can be produced[7]. Pursuing this approach, we
AlGaAs/Si dual‐junction tandem solar cells by epitaxial lift‐off and …
Introduction The development and utilization of solar energy have steadily evolved in the past decades. As traditional homogeneous solar cells, made of Si, III-V, and organic materials, have approached their physical limits, perovskites 1-4 and multijunction solar cell techniques that feature higher efficiency, lower cost, and capabilities of …
Epitaxially Grown p‐type Silicon Wafers Ready for Cell …
Epitaxial growth in comparison to ingot crystallization has vari-ous advantages: more easily and accurately adjustable doping ... [1–3] Until now, solar cells of p-type Si EpiWafers have shown efficiencies up to 19.7% and of n …
Current-Matched III–V/Si Epitaxial Tandem Solar Cells with 25.0% Efficiency: Cell …
Tandem solar cells consisting of a GaAsP top cell grown on Si can potentially offer an ideal combination of stability and efficiency. However, GaAsP/Si tandem cells are typically hampered by crystalline defects. Improving the quality of interfaces surrounding the GaAsP cell enables Fan et al. to demonstrate a 25% efficient tandem …