{"title":"Recent progress in silicon solar cells","authors":"M. Green, Jianhua Zhao, Aihua Wang","doi":"10.1109/COMMAD.1998.791578","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The present paper reports two recent independently confirmed results for silicon solar cell efficiency. An improved efficiency for an individual silicon cell of 24.5% is reported, the highest ever, as is 19.8% efficiency for a multicrystalline silicon cell, the latter representing a 6.5% relative improvement over the previously best result. Not only does the latter result for this relatively low quality material closely approach the 20% efficiency mark, once thought to be a limit on silicon cell performance regardless of multicrystalline material quality, but it also shows the potential for such multicrystalline material exceeding the performance capacity of standard crystalline Czochralski material.","PeriodicalId":300064,"journal":{"name":"1998 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices. Proceedings (Cat. No.98EX140)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"1998 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices. Proceedings (Cat. No.98EX140)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMMAD.1998.791578","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The present paper reports two recent independently confirmed results for silicon solar cell efficiency. An improved efficiency for an individual silicon cell of 24.5% is reported, the highest ever, as is 19.8% efficiency for a multicrystalline silicon cell, the latter representing a 6.5% relative improvement over the previously best result. Not only does the latter result for this relatively low quality material closely approach the 20% efficiency mark, once thought to be a limit on silicon cell performance regardless of multicrystalline material quality, but it also shows the potential for such multicrystalline material exceeding the performance capacity of standard crystalline Czochralski material.