Publication Overview

ThinPV – Cost Efficient Thin Film Photovoltaics for Future Electricity Generation

• Fan B., Heier J., Castro F.A., Hany R., Nüesch F., «Org. Electronics». 11(4), 583–588, 2010.
• Fan B., Araujo de Castro F., Opris D., Hany R., Nüesch F., J. Mater. Chem., 20, 2952–2955, 2010.
• Parascandolo G., Bugnon G., Feltrin A., Ballif C., «High-rate deposition of microcrystalline silicon in a large-area PECVD reactor and integration in tandem solar cells». Progress in Photovoltaics, 18, pp. 257–264, 2010.
• Bugnon G., Feltrin A., Bartlome R., Strahm B., Bronneberg A.C., Parascandolo G., Ballif C., «Microcrystalline and micromorph device improvements through combined plasma and material characterization techniques». Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, 2010, in print.
• Parascandolo G., Bartlome R., Bugnon G., Söderström T., Strahm B., Feltrin A., Ballif C., «Impact of secondary gas-phase reactions on microcrystalline silicon solar cells deposited at high rate». Applied Physics Letters, 96, 2010, in print (doi:10.1063/1.3449571).
• Legradic B., Howling A.A., Christoph C., «RF breakdown between structured parallel plate electrodes with a millimetric gap in low pressure gases». Submitted to Physics of Plasmas, June 17, 2010.
• Seyrling S. et al., «Development of Multijunction Thin Film Solar Cells». Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Philadelphia, submitted for publication 2009.
• Fan B., Castro F.A., Heier J., Hany R., Nüesch F., «High performing doped cyanine bilayer solar cell». Organic Electronics, doi:10.1016/j.orgel.2009.12.017, 2009.
• Seyrling S. et al., «Analysis of electronic and optical losses in CIGS/DSC tandem solar cells». Proceedings of the E-MRS Spring meeting, Strasbourg, submitted for publication 2009, under consideration for special issue of Sol. Energy Mat. Sol. Cells.
• Seyrling S. et al., «Towards the Development of High Efficiency Multijunction Thin Film Solar Cells». Proceedings of the 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Hamburg, submitted for publication 2009.
• Parascandolo G., Bugnon G., Feltrin A., Ballif C., «High-rate deposition of microcrystalline silicon in a large-area PECVD reactor and integration in tandem solar cells». Progress in Photovoltaics, in print 2009.
• Bartlome R., Strahm B., Feltrin A., Ballif C., «Laser-based plasma diagnostics for PECVD of silicon thin films». In Proc. of the 34th IEEE PVSC, Philadelphia, in print 2009.
• Strahm B., Feltrin A., Bartlome R., Ballif C., «Optical emission spectroscopy to diagnose powder formation in SiH4-H2 discharges». Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7409, 74090E, 2009.
• Strahm B., Feltrin A., Bugnon G., Meillaud-Sculati F., Ballif C., Howling A.A., Hollenstein C., «Study of the microstructure transition width from amorphous to microcrystalline silicon as a function of the input silane concentration». Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7409, 74090I, 2009.
• Wenger S., Seyrling S., Tiwari A., Grätzel M., «Fabrication and performance of a monolithic dye-sensitized TiO2/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film tandem solar cell». Applied Physics Letters 94, 173508, 2009.
• Bartlome R., Feltrin A., Ballif C., «Infrared laser-based monitoring of the silane dissociation during deposition of silicon thin films». Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 201501, 2009.
• Bugnon G., Feltrin A., Meillaud F., Bailat J., Ballif C., «Influence of pressure and silane depletion on microcrystalline silicon material quality and solar cell performance». J. Appl. Phys., Vol 105, 064507, 2009.
• Häusermann R., Knapp E., Moos M., Reinke N.A., Flatz T., Ruhstaller B., «Coupled optoelectronic simulation of organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells: Parameter extraction and sensitivity analysis». J. Appl. Phys., 106, 104507, 2009.
• Fan B., Maniglio Y., Simeunovic M., Kuster S., Geiger T., Hany R., Nüesch F., «Squaraine planar-heterojunction solar cells». Int. J. Photoenergy, doi: 10.1155/2009/581068, 2009.
• Fan B., Hany R., Moser J.-E., Nüesch F., «Enhanced cyanine solar cell performance upon oxygen doping». Organic Electronics, 9(1), 85–94, 2008.
• Seyrling S., Calnan S., Bücheler S., Hüpkes J., Wenger S., Brémaud D., Zogg H., Tiwari A.N., «CuIn1-xGaxSe2 Photovoltaic Devices for Tandem Solar Cell Application». Accepted for publication in Thin Solid Films, 2008.
• Feltrin A., Bugnon G., Meillaud F., Bailat J., Ballif C., «Silane depletion dependent ion bombardment and material quality of microcrystalline silicon deposited by VHF-PECVD». Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, San Diego, 11.5–16.5, 2008.
• Yum J.H., Walter P., Huber S., Rentsch D., Geiger T., Nüesch F., De Angelis F., Grätzel M., Nazeeruddin M.K., «Efficient far red sensitization of nanocrystalline TiO2 films by an unsymmetrical squaraine dye». J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129 (34), 10320, 2007.
• Kuang D., Walter P., Nüesch F., Kim S., Ko J., Comte P., Zakeeruddin S.M., Nazeeruddin M.K., Grätzel M., «Co-sensitization of Orgnaic Dyes for Efficient Ionic Liquid Electrolyte-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells». Langmuir 23 (22): 10906–10909, 2007.
• Liska, Thampi, Grätzel, Brémaud, Rudmann, Upadhyaya, Tiwari, «Nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cell/copper indium gallium selenide thin-film tandem showing greater than 15% conversion efficiency». Appl. Phys. Lett., 88, 203103, 2006.