As car manufacturers and battery cell makers race to develop more efficient and faster-charging EV batteries, there’s one material that’s been gaining significant traction in replacing mainstream ...

Whereas the high-efficiency potential of back-contacted devices based on the SHJ technology has been clearly shown, their fabrication with industry-relevant methods and low-complexity processing is ...

Since silicon is the third most abundant element on Earth (after iron and oxygen), it is undoubtedly a readily accessible raw material. It is a significant component of solar cells and electronic ...

The Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH) and the Leibniz Universität Hannover claim to have achieved an efficiency of 26.1% for a crystalline silicon solar cell based p-type wafer ...

Hydrogen can be either beneficial to silicon solar technologies, passivating bulk and surface defects, or detrimental, contributing to light- and elevated-temperature-induced degradation (LeTID) and ...

On 18 September, the Silicon Industry Branch of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association released the latest prices for solar-grade polysilicon. Prices rose slightly in the week of September 18 ...