Advanced solar cell architectures like passivated emitter and rear (PERC) and heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) are increasingly sensitive to bulk recombination. Present device models consider homogeneous bulk ...

Evaporated Al as metallization for silicon solar cells may be profitable as it requires less Al material than the common screen-printed Al/Ag-paste combinations and forms contacts with a lower contact resistivity. To achieve ...

This thesis investigates back-contacted (IBC) bottom solar cells with passivating and carrier-selective POLO contacts with three terminals (3T-POLO-IBC cell). Such cells form the foundation of monolithic three-terminal ...