— This paper review the present technologies for the fabrication of solar cells and modules based on the most common semiconductors namely silicon, CuInGaSe(S) and CdTe materials as well as on III-V concentrated photovoltaic cells and modules. For silion technology, we give insights on the growth of monocrystalline and multicrystalline silicon wafers and then we describe the most common solar c...

For any solar cell technology to reach the final mass-production/commercialization stage, it must meet all technological, economic, and social criteria such as high efficiency, large-area scalability, long-term stability, price competitiveness, environmental friendliness of constituent materials. Until now, various technologies have been proposed investigated, but only crystalline silicon, CdTe...

Low-cost and high-efficiency tandem solar cells are promising candidates for a future industrial mass production. Nowadays, the passivated emitter rear cell (PERC) technology makes up major market share; therefore, it is an attractive option to use PERC as bottom concept perovskite–silicon device. Long-term optimization of led highly efficient, low-cost, mature devices. For PERC-like cells, mai...

Combining a perovskite top cell with conventional passivated emitter and rear (PERC) silicon bottom in monolithically integrated tandem device is an economically attractive solution to boost the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single‐junction technology. Proof‐of‐concept perovskite/silicon solar cells using high‐temperature stable featuring polycrystalline on oxide (POLO) front junction PE...

A key challenge in photovoltaics today is to develop cell technologies with both higher efficiencies and lower fabrication costs than incumbent crystalline silicon (c-Si) single-junction cells. While tandem cells have higher efficiencies than c-Si alone, it is generally challenging to find a low-cost, high-performance material to pair with c-Si. However, the recent emergence of 22% efficient pe...

We compare the efficiency of thin film photonic crystal solar cells consisting of conical pores and nanowires. Solving both Maxwell's equations and the semiconductor drift-diffusion in each geometry, we identify optimal junction and contact positions and study the influence of bulk and surface recombination losses on solar cell efficiency. We find that using only 1 lm of silicon, sculpted in th...

Our primary goal is to increase the stabilized efficiency of thin film silicon solar cells in the substrate (nip) configuration by using textured substrates and tandem structures, based on amorphous (a-Si:H) and microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H). In order to reduce costs of mass-produced thin film solar modules, special attention has been paid in developing processes compatible with plastic fo...