Paper alert - Our work on high temperature passivating contacts !

© 2023 Elsevier

© 2023 Elsevier

PV-Lab is happy to share that our latest paper "Understanding and mitigating resistive losses in fired passivating contacts: Role of the interfaces and optimization of the thermal budget" has been published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

PV-Lab is happy to share that our latest paper "Understanding and mitigating resistive losses in fired passivating contacts: Role of the interfaces and optimization of the thermal budget" has been published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0927-0248(23)00412-9

A big thanks to all the co-authors Sofia Libraro, Audrey Morisset, Julien Hurni, Ezgi Genç, Luca Antognini, Lars J Bannenberg, Theodosios Famprikis, Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser and Franz-Josef Haug for the fruitful collaboration!

Highlights from the article;

  • Metallization of rear side passivating contacts formed with a rapid thermal processing step.

  • Contact resistivity breakdown.

  • Evolution of conductivity and passivation with thermal budget.

  • Resistive loss analysis.

  • Comparison of different oxide types.