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SUMMARY:Ultra-Low Cost Thin-Film and Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Christophe Ballif\, Photovoltaics and thin film electronics la
 boratory (PV-lab)\, EPFL-STI-IMT\, 2000 Neuchâtel\, PV-center\, CSEM\, 20
 00 Neuchâtel\nAdvanced Materials\, Interfaces and Optical Systems in Phot
 ovoltaics: New Ways for the Realization of Ultra-Low Costs Thin-Film and C
 rystalline Silicon Solar Cells.\nDuring this seminar\, we’ll first revie
 w the situation of the world photovoltaic market which will likely reach 4
 0 GW in 2014 (new installations)\, indicating the major technology trends.
  In the second part\, we’ll discuss some of the recent advances made in 
 the Neuchâtel laboratories of both EPFL and CSEM. The following topics wi
 ll be addressed here:\n•         The role of plasma processing f
 or making various kind of semiconductor layers  used either as photon abs
 orber or as passivating layers on silicon wafers\,   or as conductive op
 tical layers with refractive indices down to 1.7\n•         The 
 realization of transparent conductive oxides with controllable doping and 
 grain boundaries defects\, allowing high-carrier mobilities (up to 60 for 
 ZnO films and 110 cm2/Vs for InO:H materials) and high transparency in the
  infrared\n•         The role of plasmons in thin-film and cryst
 alline Si solar cells\, illustrating how the best devices are close are to
  optimum optical performance when plasmonic effects are screened\n•  
        The fabrication of state-of-the art thin-film silicon solar c
 ells (with 13% stable efficiency) and crystalline silicon heterojunction c
 ells (a-Si/c-Si) with over 22% efficiency.\nFinally we’ll show how some 
 of the research results are being industrialised by Swiss and foreign comp
 anies and why solar electricity will soon reach 3-5€cts/kwh in sunny cou
 ntries.
LOCATION:PH L1 503 http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=PHL1503
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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