Mitigating Solar Cell Degradation

Overview

Heterojunction (HJ) Si solar cells have world record efficiencies approaching 27%. However, these Si HJ solar cells have not yet been widely adopted by the market because they exhibit a performance degradation of about 1%/year, twice as high as standard cSi cells. Our group is adapting the knowledge developed via studying glassy systems to understand the leading degradation processes, with the aim of mitigating them.

How

LAMMPS molecular dynamics, Quantum Espresso DFT, Nudged Elastic Band method.

Papers

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