Researchers in China have investigated the impact of phosphorus diffusion gettering on industrial silicon heterojunction solar cell and have found that, with an optimized gas flow, higher efficiencies ...

TU Delft scientists used plasma treatment with boron (PTB) to build heterojunction solar cells relying on a hole transport layer made of transition metal oxide (TMO) thin films. The device showed ...

Silicon heterojunction solar cells combine crystalline silicon substrates with thin amorphous silicon layers to harness the advantages of both materials. This approach yields superior passivation, ...

Just last month, a European group posted a record of 30.8%. Image: Fraunhofer ISE. Chinese solar manufacturer Risen Energy has produced what it called a “record” conversation efficiency on a ...

Korean researchers have found that the defects limiting silicon heterojunction solar cells (SHJ), the ...

A joint research team led by Dr. Hee-Eun Song of the Photovoltaics Research Department at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (President Yi Chang-Keun, hereafter “KIER”) and Prof. Ka-Hyun Kim of ...

China’s Trina Solar has set a new world record for the conversion efficiency of a certain type of solar module, the company said in a statement on Monday. In laboratory tests, Trina’s ...

This  editorial continues our highlights of the highest independently confirmed yearly efficiencies of mainstream solar cell technologies including silicon, perovskite and organic, and analyzes the ...

A scanning electron microscope image of the perovskite silicon solar cell. Image: Fraunhofer ISE. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have developed a perovskite ...

Solar manufacturer Swift Solar has acquired the heterojunction technology (HJT) intellectual property and manufacturing assets of Meyer Burger to establish domestic cell production.

The work could ultimately have significant benefits for panel users. Scientists make breakthrough that could revolutionize ...