SiTaSol

New press release issued by one of the SiTaSol consortiums industrial partners AIXTRON

Decisive progress in multi-junction solar cells.

37th EU PVSEC, 07-11 September 2020

This years conference was held virtually due to the restrictions caused by COVID-19.

New Record Efficiency for Tandem Solar Cell Technology

Fraunhofer ISE is reporting a new record efficiency of 25.9 percent for a III-V/Si tandem solar cell grown directly on silicon.

Leiden University presents their recent work for SiTaSol at the SETAC Europe Annual Meeting.

Carlos Blanco and Stefano Cucurachi presented their recent work at the SETAC Europe 30th Annual Meeting.

New Global Sensitivity Analysis module developed for the open-source LCA software package Brightway 2.0

SiTaSol project team developed a protocol to integrate open-source Life Cycle Assessment software.

Oliver Höhn at Photonics West, 01.-06. February 2020

Oliver Höhn talked about current world record III-V silicon tandem solar cells at Photonics 2020 in San Francisco

Work Package 1 - Low Cost III-V Epitaxy Processes and Reactor Concepts

Last Update: March, 2020

Work Package 2 - Low Cost Si Substrate Preparation and GaAs Reuse

Last Update: January, 2019

Work Package 3 - Si Bottom Solar Cell

Last Update: June, 2020

Work Packages 4 - Industrial relevant III-V/Si Back-end Processes

Last Update: March, 2020

Work Packages 6 - Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA) projected to industrial scale

Last Update: June, 2020

Pathways and Potentials for III–V on Si Tandem Solar Cells Realized Using a ZnO-Based Transparent Conductive Adhesive

Authors: Ulrike Heitmann, Jonas Bartsch, Sven Kluska, Hubert Hauser, Oliver Höhn, Richard Hermann, David Lackner, Stefan Janz, Stefan W. Glunz

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics ( Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Jan. 2021) (DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2020.3038604)

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Environmental impacts of III–V/silicon photovoltaics: life cycle assessment and guidance for sustainable manufacturing

Authors: Carlos F. Blanco, Stefano Cucurachi, Frank Dimroth, Jeroen B. Guinée, Willie J. G. M. Peijnenburg and Martina G. Vijver

Energy Environ. Sci., 2020, Advance Article (https://doi.org/10.1039/D0EE01039A)

Tailored disorder: a self-organized photonic contact for light trapping in silicon-based tandem solar cells

Authors: Hubert Hauser, Kai Mühlbach, Oliver Höhn, Ralph Müller, Sonja Seitz, Jürgen Rühe, Stefan W. Glunz, and Benedikt Bläsi

Optics Express Vol. 28, Issue 8, pp. 10909-10918 (2020) (https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.390312)

Assessing the sustainability of emerging technologies: A probabilistic LCA method applied to advanced photovoltaics

Authors: Carlos F. Blanco, Stefano Cucurachi, Jeroen B. Guinée, Martina G. Vijver, Willie J.G.M. Peijnenburg, Roman Trattnig and Reinout Heijungs

Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 259 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120968)

Are Technological Developments Improving the Environmental Sustainability of Photovoltaic Electricity?

Authors: Carlos Felipe Blanco, Stefano Cucurachi, Willie J. G. M. Peijnenburg, Alistair Beames and Martina G. Vijver

Energy Technology

Energy yield analysis of textured perovskite silicon tandem solar cells and modules

Authors: N. Tucher, O. Höhn, J. N. Murthy, J. C. Martinez, M. Steiner, A. Armbruster, E. Lorenz, B. Bläsi, and J. C. Goldschmidt

Optics Express, Vol. 27, Issue 20

Electrical and Optical Analysis of a Spray Coated Transparent Conductive Adhesive for Two-Terminal Silicon Based Tandem Solar Cells

Authors: Ulrike Heitmann, Oliver Höhn, Hubert Hauser, Sven Kluska, Jonas Bartsch and Stefan Janz

AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2147, 1 (https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.5123884)

Novel Approach for the Bonding of III-V on Silicon Tandem Solar Cellswith a Transparent Conductive Adhesive

Authors: Ulrike Heitmann, Sven Kluska, Jonas Bartsch, Hubert Hauser, Alexey Ivanov, Stefan Janz

Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Heidenhofstraße 2, 79110 Freiburg, Germany

Nachhaltige Solarzellen für die Zukunft

Authors: Dr. Roman Trattnig

Institute für Oberflächentechnologien und Photonik der Joanneum Research