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Research & Publications

Our research findings are regularly published in high-impact journals and presented at international conferences, contributing to the advancement of silicon/perovskite tandem solar cells. Our team’s work has been recognized through various awards, highlighting our commitment to industrially relevant, cutting-edge photovoltaics research.

An overview about all publications of PVcomB is availabe here.

Awards & Recognitions

2024 - Philipp Wagner: Winner of the SiliconPV Award (Given to the 10 best ranked contributions of the SiliconPV 2024 Conference)
2024 - Marlene Härtel: 3rd place in the "Doctoral Theses" category in the Solar Research Berlin 2024 competition (The award was presented by the Berlin Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises)
2023 - Angelika Harter: Winner of the EU PVSEC Student Award in the thematic area of "Thin Films and New Concepts", 40th EU PVSEC (Given in recognition of the most remarkable and outstanding research work in the field of PV.)
2021 - Tobias Henschel: Winner of the Technology Transfer Prize 2021 of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

Journal publications

Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells Above 30% Conversion Efficiency on Submicron-Sized Textured Czochralski-Silicon Bottom Cells with Improved Hole-Transport Layers.
Angelika Harter, et al. - ACS applied materials & interfaces - 2024-10 - doi: 10.1021/acsami.4c09264

Top performance whatever the doping.
Bernd Stannowski and Lars Korte, et al. - Nature Energy - 2024-08 - doi: 10.1038/s41560-024-01618-3

Bandgap Pairing in Three-Terminal Tandem Solar Cells: From Limiting Efficiency to Voltage-Matched Device Performance
Philipp Wagner, et al. - Sol. RRL - 2024-01 - doi: 10.1002/solr.202300963

Upscaling of Perovskite/c-Si tandem solar cells by using industrial adaptable processes.
Peng, Zih-Wei, et al. - AIP Conference Proceedings - 2023-07 - doi: 10.1063/5.0141139

Reducing sputter damage-induced recombination losses during deposition of the transparent front-electrode for monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells.
Bor Li and Marlene Härtel, et al. - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells - 2023-04 - doi: 10.1016/j.solmat.2023.112180

Double‐sided nano‐textured surfaces for industry compatible high‐performance silicon heterojunction and perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells.
Angelika Harter, et al. - Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications - 2023-02 - doi: 10.1002/pip.3685

Performance of Monolithic Two‐and Three‐Terminal Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells Under Varying Illumination Conditions.
Philipp Wagner, et al. - Solar RRL - 2023-01 - doi: 10.1002/solr.202200954

Nano-optical designs for high-efficiency monolithic perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells.
Philipp Tockhorn, et al. - Nature Nanotechnology - 2022-10 - doi: 10.1038/s41565-022-01228-8

Optoelectrical analysis of TCO+Silicon oxide double layers at the front and rear side of silicon heterojunction solar cells.
Alexandros Cruz, et al. - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells - 2022-03 - doi: 10.1016/j.solmat.2021.111493

Encapsulation and outdoor testing of perovskite solar cells: comparing industrially relevant process with a simplified lab procedure.
Quiterie Emery, et al. - ACS applied materials & interfaces - 2022-01 - doi: 10.1021/acsami.1c14720

27.9% Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells on Industry Compatible Bottom Cells.
Eike Köhnen, et al. - Solar RRL - 2021-04 - doi: 10.1002/solr.202100244

Effect of front TCO on the performance of rear-junction silicon heterojunction solar cells: Insights from simulations and experiments.
Alexandros Cruz, et al. - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells - 2019-06 - doi: 10.1016/j.solmat.2019.01.047

Infrared light management using a nanocrystalline silicon oxide interlayer in monolithic perovskite/silicon heterojunction tandem solar cells with efficiency above 25%.
Luana Mazzarella, et al. - Advanced Energy Materials - 2019-02 - doi: 10.1002/aenm.201803241

ITO-Free Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells With ZnO:Al/SiO2 Front Electrodes Reaching a Conversion Efficiency of 23%
Anna B. Morales-Vilches, et al. - IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics - 2019-01 - doi 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2873307

Conference Contributions

Neuartige Kontakte und Wafertopographien für Hocheffizienz-Tandem-Solarzellen
Angelika Harter - FVEE-Jahrestagung 2024 - Oral presentation

Scaling up thermal evaporation processes for perovskite photovoltaics - from point sources to linear evaporators
B. Heimke, (..) and Jona Kurpiers - 41th EU PVSEC Sept. 2024 - Oral presentation

Three-Terminal Perovskite–Silicon Tandem Solar Cells
Philipp Wagner - 31st NREL Workshop - July 2024 - Oral presentation

Approaches for Industry Compatible Processes in Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells
Angelika Harter - TandemPV 2024 - Oral presentation

Investigation of sublimable ETM alternatives for vacuum deposition in tandem perovskite solar cells
Max Bernardes de Araujo et al. - TandemPV 2024 - Poster presentation

The don’ts of tandem solar cell encapsulation: A guide to avoiding mistakes
Quiterie Emery - TandemPV 2024 - Poster presentation

Bandgap Pairing in Three-Terminal Tandem Solar Cells: From Limiting Efficiency to Voltage-Matched Device Performance
Philipp Wagner - 14th SiliconPV 2024 -Oral presentation

Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells above 30% conversion efficiency on nano-textured Cz-silicon bottom cells with improved hole-transfer layers
Angelika Harter - 40th EU PVSEC 2023 - Oral presentation

Industrial Processes for Scaling Monolithic Perovskite Silicon Tandem Solar Cells
Jona Kurpiers - 40th EU PVSEC 2023 - Oral presentation

Interaction of TCO and low-temperature screen printing pastes for upscaling of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells
Jannik Kleesiek et al. - 40th EU PVSEC 2023 - Poster presentation

Impact of Top Cell Degradation and Current Mismatch in Two and Three-Terminal Perovskite–Silicon Tandem Solar Cells
Philipp Wagner - 13th SiliconPV 2023 - Oral presentation

Scaling up monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with vacuum processed top cells
Bernd Stannowski - TandemPV 2023 - Oral presentation

Scaling of monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells - Targeting for industrial process by dry and wet approaches
Bernd Stannowski - The 8th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion - Oral presentation

Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells with Double Sided Nano-textured Si Surfaces
Angelika Harter - TandemPV 2022 - Poster presentation

Surface Passivation in Metallisation Gaps of Interdigitated Back-Contact Heterojunction (IBC SHJ) Solar Cells
Philipp Wagner - 12th SiliconPV 2022- Poster presentation

Nano Pyramid Texture for High Performance Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells
Angelika Harter - 38th EUPVSEC 2021 - Poster presentation