SunShot Vision Study: February 2012 (Book)

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“…These cells offer an encouraging pathway to implement the next generation of cost‐competitive PV systems that, without subsidies, could lower the price of single modules below 0.5 $/W in the future. [ 10 ] Because of their reduced thickness and increased flexibility, ultrathin cells can also extend the applications panorama of PV in aerospace, transportation, sensing, computing, and wearable electronics that conventional PV does not yet address. [ 11 ]…”

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Innovative Strategies for Photons Management on Ultrathin Silicon Solar Cells

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Fratalocchi

2024

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Silicon (Si), the eighth most common element in the known universe by mass and widely applied in the industry of electronics chips and solar cells, rarely emerges as a pure element in the Earth's crust. Optimizing its manufacturing can be crucial in the global challenge of reducing the cost of renewable energy modules and implementing sustainable development goals in the future. In the industry of solar cells, this challenge is stimulating studies of ultrathin Si‐based architectures, which are rapidly attracting broad attention. Ultrathin solar cells require up to two orders of magnitude less Si than conventional solar cells, and owning to a flexible nature, they are opening applications in different industries that conventional cells do not yet serve. Despite these attractive factors, a difficulty in ultrathin Si solar cells is overcoming the weak light absorption at near‐infrared wavelengths. The primary goal in addressing this problem is scaling up cost‐effective and innovative textures for anti‐reflection and light‐trapping with shallower depth junctions, which can offer similar performances to traditional thick modules. This review provides an overview of this area of research, discussing this field both as science and engineering and highlighting present progress and future outlooks.

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