2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference - (PVSC 2019) Chicago, Illinois, USA 16-21 June 2019 Pages 1-832
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2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic
Specialists Conference
(PVSC 2019)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
16-21 June 2019
Pages 1-832
IEEE Catalog Number: CFP19PSC-POD
ISBN: 978-1-7281-0495-9
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ENABLING ULTRATHIN III-V SOLAR CELLS USING DUAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS ...................................... 1
Jeronimo Buencuerpo ; John F. Geisz ; Myles A. Steiner ; Adele C. Tamboli
SPECTRALLY-SELECTIVE PHOTOVOLTAICS VIA PHOTONIC BAND ENGINEERING IN
ABSORBING MEDIA........................................................................................................................................................... 4
Arlene Chiu ; Botong Qiu ; Yida Lin ; Ebuka S. Arinze ; Lulin Li ; Susanna M. Thon
THINKING BEYOND LIMITING EFFICIENCIES OF ADVANCED CONCEPTS: DESIGN
RULES AND MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR REALISTIC DEVICES ............................................................... 8
Andreas Pusch ; Nicholas J. Ekins-Daukes
SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT ON ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF BASI2 DUE TO ATOMIC
H PASSIVATION BY RADIO-FREQUENCY PLASMA ............................................................................................... 12
Zhihao Xu ; Kazuhiro Gotoh ; Tianguo Deng ; Kaoru Toko ; Noritaka Usami ; Takashi Suemasu
SPRAY-CAST ELECTRODES IN COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS FOR
PORTABLE SOLAR ENERGY MANUFACTURING ................................................................................................... 15
Lulin Li ; Botong Qiu ; Chengchangfeng Lu ; Laura Shimabukuro ; Yida Lin ; Susanna M. Thon
COMPARISON OF P, AS & SB DOPED POLYCRYSTALLINE CDTE SOLAR CELLS......................................... 19
Sachit Grover ; Xiaoping Li ; Dingyuan Lu ; Rajni Mallick ; Gang Xiong ; Markus Gloeckler
STUDY OF OPEN-CIRCUIT VOLTAGE IN CDTE/MGCDTE DOUBLE-HETEROSTRUCTURE
SOLAR CELLS WITH DIFFERENT HOLE CONTACTS ............................................................................................ 21
Jia Ding ; Yong-Hang Zhang
GROUP-V DOPANT INCORPORATION FOR HIGH CDSETE/CDTE HOLE DENSITY AND
LIFETIME ........................................................................................................................................................................... 25
Mahisha Amarasinghe ; Eric Colegrove ; David Albin ; Santosh Swain ; Joel Duenow ; Xin Zheng ; Andrew
Ferguson ; Kelvin Lynn ; Wyatt K. Metzger
DOPING CDSEXTE1-X/CDTE GRADED ABSORBER FILMS WITH ARSENIC FOR THIN-FILM
PHOTOVOLTAICS ............................................................................................................................................................ 28
Amit H. Munshi ; Adam H. Danielson ; Santosh Swain ; Carey L. Reich ; Tushar M. Shimpi ; Seth W. McPherson ;
Kelvin G. Lynn ; Darius Kuciauskas ; Andrew Ferguson ; Jinglong Guo ; Robert Klie ; Walajabad S. Sampath
DEMONSTRATING THE GAINP/GAAS THREE-TERMINAL HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR
TRANSISTOR SOLAR CELL........................................................................................................................................... 35
Marius H. Zehender ; Iván García ; Simon A. Svatek ; Myles A. Steiner ; Pablo García-Linares ; Emily Warren ;
Adele Tamboli ; Antonio Martí ; Elisa Antolín
PERFORMANCE STUDY OF LATTICE-MATCHED MULTIJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS
INCORPORATING GAINNASSB JUNCTIONS WITH 0.7 - 1.4 EV BANDGAP ....................................................... 41
Arto Aho ; Riku Isoaho ; Marianna Raappana ; Timo Aho ; Ville Polojärvi ; Antti Tukiainen ; Elina Anttola ;
Severi Mäkelä ; Jarno Reuna ; Mircea Guina
SEGMENTED MULTI-JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS: A NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR CELL
DESIGN & OPTIMIZATION ............................................................................................................................................ 45
Christopher E. Valdivia ; Karin Hinzer
EVIDENCE OF ENHANCED ZN-DIFFUSION OBSERVED DURING THE GROWTH OF
INVERTED METAMORPHIC SOLAR CELLS ............................................................................................................. 49
Manuel Hinojosa ; Iván García ; Ignacio Rey-Stolle ; Carlos Algora
SIMULATION STUDY ON THE CONCEPT OF LIFETIME-EQUIVALENT DEFECT DENSITY
IN THE CONTEXT OF LIGHT-INDUCED DEGRADATION (LID) EXPERIMENTS ............................................. 54
Axel Herguth
HOW GETTERING AFFECTS THE TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY OF THE IMPLIED OPEN
CIRCUIT VOLTAGE OF MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON WAFERS .................................................................... 61
Sissel Tind Kristensen ; Shuai Nie ; Charly Berthod ; Rune Strandberg ; Jan Ove Odden ; Ziv Hameiri
MITIGATING PROCESS INDUCED DEGRADATION IN P- AND N-CZOCHRALSKI SILICON
WAFERS WITH TABULA RASA..................................................................................................................................... 68
Abigail R. Meyer ; Vincenzo Lasalvia ; William Nemeth ; Matthew Page ; David Young ; Sumit Agarwal ; Paul
Stradins
DIFFERENTIAL ANALYSIS OF THE ANGLE OF INCIDENCE RESPONSE OF UTILITY-
GRADE PV MODULES ..................................................................................................................................................... 77
Bruce H. King ; Charles D. RobinsonMEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTIES IN THE CALIBRATION OF MULTI-JUNCTION SOLAR
CELLS USING DIFFERENT SUN SIMULATORS AND REFERENCE DEVICES................................................... 82
S. Kasimir Reichmuth ; Gerald Siefer ; Michael Schachtner ; Matthias Mühleis ; Jochen Hohl-Ebinger ; Stefan W.
Glunz
A NEW APPROACH TO INDOOR CHARACTERIZATION OF PV MODULE ENERGY YIELD
PARAMETERS ................................................................................................................................................................... 87
Paul F. Ndione ; Carl R. Osterwald ; Larry Ottoson ; Andrew M. Gabor ; Dean H. Levi
TRIPLE-HALIDE BANDGAP TUNING IN TOP CELLS FOR PEROVSKITE/SI TANDEMS................................ 91
Jixian Xu ; Caleb Boyd ; Daniel Witter ; Joseph M. Luther ; Michael D. McGehee
HIGH OPEN-CIRCUIT VOLTAGE IN WIDE-BANDGAP PEROVSKITE PHOTOVOLTAICS
WITH PASSIVATION LAYERS BASED ON LARGE CATIONS................................................................................ 95
Saba Gharibzadeh ; Bahram Abdollahi Nejand ; Marius Jakoby ; Tobias Abzieher ; Somayeh Moghadamzadeh ;
Jonas A. Schwenzer ; Philipp Brenner ; Raphael Schmager ; Amir Abbas Haghighirad ; Uli Lemmer ; Bryce S.
Richards ; Ian A. Howard ; Ulrich W. Paetzold
HIGH EFFICIENCY SEMI-TRANSPARENT ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS......................................................... 98
Yongxi Li ; Chengang Ji ; Yue Qu ; Xinjing Huang ; Shaocong Hou ; Chang-Zhi Li ; Liang-Sheng Liao ; L. Jay
Guo ; Stephen R. Forrest
EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE HYSTERESIS-FREE MIXED
PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS ...................................................................................................................................... 101
Annie Ng ; Zhiwei Ren ; Damir Aidarkhanov ; Zhuldyz Yelzhanova ; Gaukhar Nigmetova ; Askar Maxim ;
Bakytzhan Akhmetov ; Patrick W. K. Fong ; Aleksandra B. Djurišic ; Charles Surya
NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATION OF ORGANIC AND HYBRID MULTIJUNCTION SOLAR
CELLS................................................................................................................................................................................ 105
Urs Aeberhard ; Stéphane Altazin ; Lidia Stepanova ; Alexandre Stous ; Balthasar Blülle ; Christoph Kirsch ;
Evelyne Knapp ; Beat Ruhstaller
OUTDOOR TESTING OF C-SI PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES WITH SPECTRALLY-
SELECTIVE MIRRORS FOR OPERATING TEMPERATURE REDUCTION ....................................................... 112
Ian M. Slauch ; Michael G. Deceglie ; Timothy J Silverman ; Vivian E. Ferry
THERMO-MECHANICAL DEGRADATION AT FINGER-SOLDER INTERFACE IN A
CRYSTALLINE SILICON PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE UNDER THERMAL FATIGUE
CONDITIONS ................................................................................................................................................................... 118
Sagarika Kumar ; Rajesh Gupta
COMPARATIVE MODELS OF INDUCED THERMOMECHANICAL STRESS IN SILICON
SOLAR CELLS INTERCONNECTED WITH CONVENTIONAL TABBING AND WIRE-BASED
INTERCONNECTION METHODS ................................................................................................................................ 122
Pei-Chieh Hsiao ; Zhimeng Wang ; Ning Song ; Yang Li ; Zi Ouyang ; Charles Hall ; Chen Zhu ; Jun Lv ; Canjun
Shen ; Cheng Chen ; Guoqing Chen ; Xueqing Zhang ; Alison Lennon
NOVEL FOIL INTERCONNECTS FOR BACK-CONTACT SILICON SOLAR CELLS........................................ 126
Kathryn Fisher ; Xiaodong Meng ; Barry Hartweg ; Sujyot Mony ; Mariana Bertoni ; Zachary Holman
MOUNTING RAIL SPACERS FOR IMPROVED SOLAR PANEL DURABILITY ................................................. 131
Andrew M. Gabor ; Rob Janoch ; Andrew Anselmo ; Jason Lincoln ; Eric J. Schneller ; Hubert Seigneur ; Duncan
J. Harwood ; Michael W. Rowell
TECHNOECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PHOTOVOLTAICS MODULE MANUFACTURING WITH
THIN SILICON WAFERS ............................................................................................................................................... 136
Zhe Liu ; Sarah E. Sofia ; Hannu Laine ; Michael Woodhouse ; Sarah Wieghold ; Ian Marius Peters ; Tonio
Buonassisi
POTENTIAL OF CDZNTE THIN FILM BACK BUFFER LAYER FOR CDTE SOLAR CELLS.......................... 140
Fadhil K. Alfadhili ; Adam B. Phillips ; Manoj K. Jamarkattel ; Austin J. Snyder ; Jacob M. Gibbs ; Geethika K.
Liyanage ; Michael J. Heben
ROOM TEMPERATURE PROCESSED TRANSPARENT CU-ZN-S NANOCOMPOSITES AS
HOLE TRANSPORT MATERIALS IN CDTE PHOTOVOLTAICS .......................................................................... 144
Ebin Bastola ; Kamala Khanal Subedi ; Fadhil K. Alfadhili ; Adam B. Phillips ; Michael J. Heben ; Randy J.
Ellingson
CDMGTE AS AN ELECTRON REFLECTOR FOR MGZNO/CDSETE/CDTE SOLAR CELLS .......................... 149
Alexandra M. Bothwell ; Jennifer A. Drayton ; Pascal Jundt ; James R. Sites
STUDIES ON CO-SPUTTERED AL-ZN-SN-O FILMS: A NEW TCO FOR THIN FILM SOLAR
CELLS................................................................................................................................................................................ 155
Sreedevi Gedi ; Hyunmin Jung ; Salh Alhammadi ; Vasudeva Reddy Minnam Reddy ; Yeongju Seo ; Doohyung
Moon ; Woo Kyoung Kim
REDUCING AIR- AND MOISTURE-INDUCED DEGRADATION OF CU(IN,GA)SE2 ABSORBER
LAYERS FOR THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS BY RBCL TREATMENT.................................................................... 159
Tim Kodalle ; Chih An Hsu ; Tobias Bertram ; Natalia Maticiuc ; Jakob Lauche ; Ivona Kafedjiska ; Iver
Lauermann ; Rutger Schlatmann ; Chris S. Ferekides ; Christian A. KaufmannCDCL2 ACTIVATION OF THE ZNTE:AS BACK CONTACT LAYER IN CDTE THIN FILM
SOLAR CELLS, EMPLOYING A CDS SACRIFICIAL LAYER ................................................................................ 165
Ochai Oklobia ; Giray Kartopu ; Stuart J. C. Irvine
OXIDATIVE SEGREGATION OF GROUP V DOPANTS IN CDTE SOLAR CELLS ............................................ 169
Craig L. Perkins ; Brian McCandless ; Deborah L. McGott ; Matthew O. Reese ; Wyatt Metzger
MONOLITHIC CZTS/SI TANDEM CELLS: DEVELOPMENT OF MULTILAYER STRUCTURES
FOR THE INTERMEDIATE CONTACT ...................................................................................................................... 173
Claudia Malerba ; Matteo Valentini ; Massimo Izzi ; Luca Serenelli ; Enrico Salza ; Mario Tucci ; Alberto Mittiga
EFFECTS OF FABRICATION ATMOSPHERE ON BULK AND BACK INTERFACE DEFECTS
OF CDTE SOLAR CELLS WITH CDS AND MGZNO BUFFERS ............................................................................. 177
Rasha A. Awni ; Deng-Bing Li ; Zhaoning Song ; Sandip S. Bista ; Mohammed A. Razooqi ; Corey R. Grice ; Lei
Chen ; Geethika K. Liyanage ; Chongwen Li ; Adam B. Phillips ; Michael J. Heben ; Randy J. Ellingson ; Jian V.
Li ; Yanfa Yan
EVIDENCE OF REVERSIBLE OXIDATION AT CUINSE2 GRAIN BOUNDARIES ............................................. 182
Diego Colombara ; Jean-Nicolas Audinot ; Damien Aureau ; Finn Babbe ; Phillip J. Dale ; Hossam El Anzeery ;
Harvey Guthrey ; Nicoleta Nicoara ; Sascha Sadewasser ; Deepanjan Sharma ; Nathalie Valle ; Tom Wirtz ;
Anastasiya Zelenina
BIFACIAL CDS/CDTE SOLAR CELL USING TRANSPARENT BARIUM COPPER SULFIDE AS
A HOLE TRANSPORT LAYER ..................................................................................................................................... 185
Kamala Khanal Subedi ; Ebin Bastola ; Indra Subedi ; Adam B. Phillips ; Michael J. Heben ; Nikolas J. Podraza ;
Randy J. Ellingson
EFFECT OF PROCESS TEMPERATURE AND COPPER DOPING ON THE PERFORMANCE OF
ZNTE:CU BACK CONTACTS IN CDTE PHOTOVOLTAICS................................................................................... 189
Anna Kindvall ; Amit Munshi ; Tushar Shimpi ; Adam Danielson ; Walajabad S. Sampath
DESIGNING OF CZTSSE BASED SNS THIN FILM SOLAR CELL FOR IMPROVED
CONVERSION EFFICIENCY: A SIMULATION STUDY WITH SCAPS ................................................................ 193
Shivani ; Jaya Madan ; Rahul Pandey ; Rajnish Sharma
DESIGN OF THE MICRO-KÖHLER CONCENTRATOR OPTICS FOR CPV APPLICATION........................... 196
Kenji Araki ; Kan-Hua Lee ; Nobuhiko Hayashi ; Kouki Ichihashi ; Shutetsu Kanayama ; Takuji Inohara ; Yohei
Morita ; Michihiko Takase ; Masafumi Yamaguchi
ALIGNMENT TOLERANCE CONTROL OF THE MICRO CPV ARRAY USING MONTE CARLO
METHODS......................................................................................................................................................................... 202
Kenji Araki ; Kan-Hua Lee ; Nobuhiko Hayashi ; Kouki Ichihashi ; Shutetsu Kanayama ; Takuji Inohara ; Yohei
Morita ; Michihiko Takase ; Masafumi Yamaguchi
ANALYSIS AND ENHANCEMENT OF QUANTUM EFFICIENCY FOR MULTI-JUNCTION
SOLAR CELL ................................................................................................................................................................... 210
Jatin Kumar Chaudhary ; Rajeev Kanth ; Jukka-Pekka Skön ; Jukka Heikkonen
AN ENERGY BALANCE MODEL FOR CPV MODULE LENS AND CELL TEMPERATURE............................ 215
Aron P. Dobos
DESIGNING WITH LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAICS ...................................... 221
Angèle Reinders ; Ned Ekins-Daukes ; Timothy Schmidt ; Hanbo Yang ; Monika Michalska ; Rosina Pelosi ;
Marcello Nitti ; Lara Gillan ; Dane McCamey ; Elham M. Gholizadeh ; Parisa Hosseinabadi ; Blair Welsh ; Scott
Kable
MOVPE GROWTH OF ALINP-INGAP DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS (DBR) FOR
MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION INTO MULTIJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS.......................................................... 227
Kamran Forghani ; Rekha Reddy ; David Rowell ; Rao Tatavarti
LOW COST GASB N ON P THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC (TPV) CELLS ................................................................ 230
Liangliang Tang ; J. Devin Mackenzie ; James E. Avery ; Lewis M. Fraas
DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF ALGAAS-BASED 1.8EV SCHOTTKY SOLAR CELL.................................... 233
Amirhossein Ghods ; Vishal Saravade ; Andrew Woode ; Chuanle Zhou ; Ian Ferguson
A SUNFLOWER RECEIVER FOR HYBRID PHOTOVOLTAIC-SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY
CONVERSION .................................................................................................................................................................. 238
Yaping Ji ; Kazi Islam ; Brian C. Riggs ; Luke E. Artzt ; William L. Adams ; Jacqueline Failla ; David Baror ;
Naman Gupta ; Daniel Codd ; Matthew D. Escarra
DIRECT FLUID COOLING OF CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAICS FOR HYBRID
PHOTOVOLTAIC-SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION .......................................................................... 244
Yaping Ji ; Kazi Islam ; Brian C. Riggs ; Jacqueline Failla ; David Bar-Or ; Luke E. Artzt ; William L. Adams ;
Claire Davis ; Daniel Codd ; Matthew D. Escarra
NOVEL OPTICAL APPROACH FOR CONCENTRATING LIGHT IN MICRO-CPV........................................... 249
Norman Jost ; César Domínguez ; Guido Vallerotto ; Tian Gu ; Juejun Hu ; Ignacio Antón
DEMONSTRATION OF HIGH EFFICIENCY STATIC LOW-CONCENTRATION
PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE USING HYBRID LENS ARRAYS .............................................................................. 255
Kan-Hua Lee ; Daisuke Sato ; Kenji Araki ; Noboru Yamada ; Masafumi YamaguchiMODELING OF PARTIAL SHADING TOLERANCE IN MICRO CONCENTRATOR
PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES ....................................................................................................................................... 260
James E. Moore ; Kenneth J. Schmieder ; Wolfgang Wagner ; Matthew P. Lumb
OPTICAL ANALYSIS OF SECONDARY OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR MICROTRACKING CPV
SYSTEM WITH CORE-SHELL SPHERICAL LENS .................................................................................................. 264
Masakazu Nakatani ; Noboru Yamada
REDUCING CPV MATERIALS COST THROUGH MULTISTAGE CONCENTRATION.................................... 268
Richard Norman ; Brad Siskavich ; Etienne Leveille ; William Cloutier ; Luc Frechette ; Vincent Aimez
OBSERVATION OF DISLOCATIONS IN GRADED BUFFER LAYERS OF IMM SINGLE
JUNCTION INGAAS SOLAR CELLS BY TWO-PHOTON EXCITATION
PHOTOLUMINESCENCE .............................................................................................................................................. 273
Akio Ogura ; Tomoyuki Tanikawa ; Tatsuya Takamoto ; Ryuji Oshima ; Hidetoshi Suzuki ; Mitsuru Imaizumi ;
Takeyoshi Sugaya
MICRO-TRANSFER PRINTER-ASSEMBLED FIVE JUNCTION CPV MICROCELL
DEVELOPMENT.............................................................................................................................................................. 277
Kenneth J. Schmieder ; Thomas C. Mood ; Matthew A. Meitl ; Brent Fisher ; Jim Carter ; Mitchell F. Bennett ;
Eric A. Armour ; Martin Diaz ; Nicole A. Kotulak ; Laura Ruppalt ; Ziggy Pulwin ; Scott Burroughs ; Matthew P.
Lumb
REAR HETEROJUNCTION GAAS SOLAR CELLS WITH STRAIN-BALANCED
GAINAS/GAASP QUANTUM WELLS .......................................................................................................................... 281
Myles A. Steiner ; Ryan M. France ; Jeronimo Buencuerpo ; John Simon ; William E. McMahon
2.1 – 2.2 EV ALGAINP SOLAR CELLS GROWN BY MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY....................................... 284
Yukun Sun ; Shizhao Fan ; Joseph Faucher ; Ryan Hool ; Brian Li ; Minjoo Larry Lee
A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT SIMULATION METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING FRONT
CONTACTS OF CONCENTRATOR MULTIJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS .............................................................. 288
Chris H. Van De Stadt ; Pilar E. Gonzalez ; Harry A. Atwater ; Rebecca Saive
A LINEAR RELATION BEHIND OUTSTANDING CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS ......................... 292
Mari Aoki ; Takayuki Aoyama ; Isao Sumita
EFFECTS OF CONSTITUENTS IN PASTE ON LOW LIGHT PERFORMANCES OF SILICON
SOLAR CELLS ................................................................................................................................................................. 296
Takayuki Aoyama ; Mari Aoki ; Isao Sumita
PERFORMANCE OF SILICON HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS USING HIGH
RESISTIVITY SUBSTRATES......................................................................................................................................... 300
André Augusto ; Apoorva Srinivasa ; Richard R. King ; Stuart G. Bowden
COMPARATIVE STUDY ON TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENTS OF AL-BSF SOLAR CELLS
AND PERC SOLAR CELLS ............................................................................................................................................ 304
Xiaoli Cheng ; Tianze Zhou ; Songshan Feng ; He Wang ; Hong Yang ; Shengchun Mao ; Huacong Yu
ROOM TEMPERATURE WET CHEMICAL GROWTH OF AN OXYGEN ENHANCED
DIFFUSION OXIDE UTILIZED IN A BORON DIFFUSION PROCESS .................................................................. 308
Orry Faur ; Maria Faur
ENHANCING PHOTOCARRIER BULK LIFETIME WITH DEFECT ENGINEERING OF
POLYCRYSTALLINE PASSIVATED-CONTACT N-CZ PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES ....................................... 311
Vincenzo Lasalvia ; Abigail Meyer ; William Nemeth ; David Young ; Matthew Page ; Paul Stradins
UNDERSTANDING HOLE TRANSPORT ACROSS AMORPHOUS SI PASSIVATION LAYERS IN
SI HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATION............................................... 314
Pradyumna Muralidharan ; Stephen M. Goodnick ; Dragica Vasileska
INFLUENCE OF UV LIGHT ON THE INCREASE OF SINX CONDUCTIVITY TOWARD
ELUCIDATION OF POTENTIAL INDUCED DEGRADATION MECHANISM ..................................................... 317
Dong Chung Nguyen ; Yasuaki Ishikawa ; Cong Thanh Nguyen ; Keisuke Ohdaira ; Atsushi Masuda ; Yukiharu
Uraoka
ANALYSIS OF THE ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF THE LOCAL IDEALITY FACTOR .................................. 321
A. Otaegi ; V. Fano ; E. Cereceda ; L. Pérez ; N. Azkona ; J. R. Gutiérrez ; J. C. Jimeno
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF COMMERCIALLY RELEVANT P-TYPE SILICON CELL
ARCHITECTURES .......................................................................................................................................................... 326
Eric J. Schneller ; Mohammad Jobayer Hossain ; Rafaela Frota ; Alan J. Curran ; Menghong Wang ; Jean-
Nicolas Jaubert ; Jennifer L. Braid ; Roger H. French ; Kristopher O. Davis
MODELING OF INJECTION-DEPENDENT NON-RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION VIA POINT
AND EXTENDED DEFECTS IN MC-SI ........................................................................................................................ 330
Andrey Semichaevsky
AN ANALYSIS OF PASSIVATED EMITTER AND REAR CONTACT (PERC) CELL AND
MODULE ........................................................................................................................................................................... 334
M. Shadab Siddiqui ; B. K. Pant ; A. K. Saxena ; Shivangi ; Sandeep ChandrilEFFECTS OF A DEFECTED GAP/SI INTERFACE ON A SI HETEROJUNCTION
INTERDIGITATED BACK CONTACT (IBC) SOLAR CELL.................................................................................... 339
Yongjie Zou ; Chaomin Zhang ; Christiana Honsberg ; Stephen Goodnick
ELECTRON TRAPPING ENHANCEMENT IN GOLD AND SILVER MODIFIED ZNO
NANOCOMPOSITES AS PHOTOANODES FOR DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS ......................................... 344
Salim Al-Arafati ; Htet H. Kyaw ; Myo Tay Zar Myint ; Mohammed Al-Abri ; Osama K. Abou-Zied
DOPED LAYER CHARACTERIZATION USING ACCURATE OPTICAL MODELLING OF MID-
INFRARED SPECTROMETRY...................................................................................................................................... 348
Divya Ananthanarayanan ; Johnson Wong ; Armin G. Aberle ; Jian Wei Ho
HIGH-FREQUENCY MODULATED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE: A SIMULATION STUDY OF
CASES DESCRIBING THE SIGNATURE OF CARRIER RECOMBINATION AND TRAP
CENTERS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 352
Baptiste Bérenguier ; Nicolas Moron ; Wei Zhao ; Jean François Guillemoles ; Jean-Paul Kleider ; Laurent
Lombez
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF ORGANIC INORGANIC METAL HALIDE PEROVSKITE FOR
PHOTOVOLTAICS .......................................................................................................................................................... 359
Khagendra P. Bhandari ; Anup Lamichhane ; Travis Maenle ; Ebin Bastola ; Randy J. Ellingson
QUANTIFYING OPERATIONAL SNOW LOSSES USING EXTERNAL SNOW DATA AND THE
MARION MODEL ............................................................................................................................................................ 363
Ryan Blumenthal ; Kevin Anderson ; Saurabh Aneja ; Martin Waters
ACCURATE LINEAR I-V EXTRACTION OF IDEALITY, SERIES AND SHUNT RESISTANCES .................... 368
Jennifer L. Braid
AUTOMATED, REAL-TIME ANALYSIS OF PV MANUFACTURING DATA USING A “LOSS
COMPONENT” APPROACH ......................................................................................................................................... 372
Rhett Evans ; Johnson Wong
PHOTOLUMINESCENCE EXCITATION SPECTROSCOPY CHARACTERIZATION OF
SURFACE AND BULK QUALITY FOR EARLY-STAGE POTENTIAL OF MATERIAL SYSTEMS ................. 377
Elizabeth K. Grubbs ; James Moore ; Peter A. Bermel
SINGLE DIODE PARAMETER EXTRACTION FROM IN-FIELD PHOTOVOLTAIC I-V
CURVES ON A SINGLE BOARD COMPUTER........................................................................................................... 382
C. Birk Jones ; Clifford. W. Hansen
NON-DESTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUE FOR MEASUREMENT OF QUANTUM EFFICIENCY OF
ENCAPSULATED SOLAR CELLS IN PV MODULES ............................................................................................... 388
K. Naga Bhavya Jyothi ; Narendra Shiradkar ; B. M. Arora ; K. L. Narasimhan
POWERFUL TOPOGRAPHIC ANALYZING TECHNIQUE USING FAST FOURIER
TRANSFORM FOR C-SI SOLAR CELLS AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES................................................... 412
Karolien Saliou ; Florian Hilt ; Clotaire Chevalier ; Guillaume Fischer ; Thibaud Hildebrandt ; Pierre-Philippe
Grand ; Etienne Drahi
DEFECT ANALYSIS IN CSS AND SPUTTERED CDSEXTE1-X THIN FILMS...................................................... 418
Niraj Shrestha ; Corey R. Grice ; Ebin Bastola ; Yanfa Yan ; Randy J. Ellingson
PV SYSTEM PERFORMANCE EVALUATION BY CLUSTERING PRODUCTION DATA TO
NORMAL AND NON-NORMAL OPERATION. .......................................................................................................... 423
Odysseas Tsafarakis ; Kostas Sinapis ; Wilfried G. J. H. M. Van Sark
USING PHYSICS MODELS TO ANALYZE AGGREGATE INLINE MEASUREMENT DATA........................... 426
Johnson Wong ; Rhett Evans ; Hamid Ghoddami ; Steve Macdonald ; Gordon Deans
ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES AND MOLAR EXCITATION COEFFICIENT FOR ORGANIC
SOLAR CELLS MATERIALS BY USING TD-DFT METHOD.................................................................................. 429
Muath Bani Salim ; Reza Nekovei
CALCULATION OF THE OPTICAL LOSSES IN PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS................................................ 434
Roberto Bernal-Correa ; Arturo Morales-Acevedo
INKJET PRINTING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TITANIUM DIOXIDE AND PLATINUM
ELECTRODES FOR DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS (DSSCS).......................................................................... 439
Chin-Tai Chen ; Chung-Hao Chen
DEVELOPING INKJET PRINTED PEDOT/PSS FILMS FOR SOLAR CELLS ...................................................... 443
Meixi Chen ; Abhishek Iyer ; Robert Opila
ROOM TEMPERATURE SYNTHESIS OF LEAD-FREE SN/GE-BASED PEROVSKITE
QUANTUM DOTS ............................................................................................................................................................ 447
Zeying Chen ; Pravakar P. Rajbhandari ; Tara P. Dhakal
EFFECT OF A-SI ON CH3NH3PBI3 FILMS AND APPLICATIONS IN PEROVSKITE SOLAR
CELLS................................................................................................................................................................................ 451
Brianna Conrad ; Martin Müller ; Zdenek Remeš ; Lucie Landová ; Lukáš Horák ; Amalraj Peter Amalathas ;
Jakub HolovskýINORGANIC CESIUM-LEAD MIXED HALIDE PEROVSKITE P-I-N SOLAR CELLS
DEPOSITED USING LAYER-BY-LAYER VACUUM DEPOSITION TECHNIQUE .............................................. 457
Harshavardhan Gaonkar ; Junhao Zhu ; Laila Poly ; Ranjith Kottokkaran ; Max Noack Behrang Bagheri ; Vikram
Dalal
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BASED ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS UNDER AMBIENT CONDITION .................................................................... 461
Leiping Duan ; Yu Zhang ; Haimang Yi ; Cheng Xu ; Faiazul Haque ; Ashraf Uddin
CYANINE DYE AS DOPANT FREE HOLE TRANSPORT MATERIAL IN PEROVSKITE SOLAR
CELLS................................................................................................................................................................................ 470
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TEMPERATURE PROCESSED CARBON ELECTRODES ....................................................................................... 473
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MANUFACTURING IN ALTERNATIVE PV MARKETS .......................................................................................... 480
Ian Mathews ; Sarah Sofia ; Erica Ma ; Joel Jean ; Hannu Laine ; Tonio Buonassisi ; Ian Marius Peters
NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF DIO ADDITIVE IN
PTB7:PC71BM SOLAR CELL ........................................................................................................................................ 484
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APPLICATION ................................................................................................................................................................. 487
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IMPROVE RELIABILITY AND REDUCE COSTS ..................................................................................................... 495
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ZNTE BACK BUFFER LAYER TO ENHANCE THE EFFICIENCY OF CDS/CDTE SOLAR
CELLS................................................................................................................................................................................ 499
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CURVE USING PATTERN RECOGNITION................................................................................................................ 503
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HETEROJUNCTION BIFACIAL CELL AND MODULE TECHNOLOGY IN AN INDUSTRIAL
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Pedro Jesse Martin ; Govindasamy Tamizhmani
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Harsh R. Parikh ; Sergiu Spataru ; Dezso Sera ; Gisele A. Dos Reis Benatto ; Peter B. Poulsen ; Claire Mantel ;
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CONDUCTIVE BACKSHEETS: SITE DEPENDENCE............................................................................................... 544
Ashwini Pavgi ; Jaewon Oh ; George Kelly ; Govindasamy TamizhmaniCOMPARISON OF TPT AND THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE BACKSHEETS IN ONE-CELL
MODULES: WEATHER AND CLIMATE DEPENDENCE ........................................................................................ 550
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FRAMELESS MODULES................................................................................................................................................ 558
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SOLAR CELLS ................................................................................................................................................................. 562
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Francesca Tilli
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CHALLENGES FOR PHOTOVOLTAICS .................................................................................................................... 592
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ELECTRIC POWER OF RESIDENTIAL PV SYSTEMS IN JAPAN......................................................................... 601
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EFFICIENCY AND THE ADOPTION OF DISTRIBUTED SOLAR .......................................................................... 607
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AND ENHANCED PERFORMANCE............................................................................................................................. 615
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Barbara Terheiden ; Ingrid Weiss ; Antonio Fuentes
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Mariya Layurova ; Zachary A. Vanorman ; Alexander S. Bieber ; Barry Lai ; Zhonghou Cai ; Lea Nienhaus ;
Tonio Buonassisi
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SOLAR CELLS ................................................................................................................................................................. 630
Hieu T. Nguyen ; Boyi Chen ; Jun Peng ; Heping Shen ; The Duong ; Daniel Walter ; Steve Johnston ; Mowafak
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; Jean Rousset ; Laurent Lombez
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IN SITU AND EX SITU INVESTIGATIONS OF OXYGEN, LIGHT AND TEMPERATURE
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Jonathan L. Bryan ; Lejo Joseph Koduvelikulathu ; Zih-Wei Peng ; Joe V. Carpenter ; Michael G. Deceglie ;
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PUMPING SYSTEMS....................................................................................................................................................... 653
Simon Meunier ; Loic Queval ; Matthias Heinrich ; Elvire A. De La Fresnaye ; Judith A. Cherni ; Lionel Vido ;
Arouna Darga ; Philippe Dessante ; Bernard Multon ; Peter K. Kitanidis ; Claude Marchand
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USING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION WITH ZONE INITIALIZATION................................................. 663
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AREA WITH INCREASED CROP YIELD.................................................................................................................... 668
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Michael Köhl ; Jennifer L. Braid ; Roger H. French
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SIC-BASED PV INVERTER............................................................................................................................................ 695
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SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 716
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THREE-PHASE PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS....................................................................................................... 724
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Hamid Mehrvarz ; Anita Ho-Baillie ; Christopher Kerestes ; Daniel Derkacs ; Steven G. Whipple ; Alex P.
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ROUGH BOTTOM CELL SURFACES.......................................................................................................................... 738
Marko Jošt ; Tobias Bertram ; Dibyashree Koushik ; Jose A. Marquez ; Marcel A. Verheijen ; Marc Daniel
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POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY EXCEEDING 21%....................................................................................... 743
Zhaoning Song ; Dewei Zhao ; Cong Chen ; Ramez H. Ahangharnejhad ; Chongwen Li ; Kiran Ghimire ; Nikolas
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PASSIVATED CONTACT SILICON BOTTOM CELL ............................................................................................... 747
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THIN-BARRIER STRAINED QUANTUM WELL SUPERLATTICE SOLAR CELLS ........................................... 756
Seth M. Hubbard ; Mitsul Kacharia ; Anastasiia Fedorenko ; Stephen J. Polly ; Roger Welser ; Ashok K. Sood
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Keith Barnham ; Brandon K. Durant ; James P. Connolly ; Markus F. Führer ; Louise Hirst ; Ian R. Sellers ;
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THROUGH CURRENT CONSTRAINT ENGINEERING ........................................................................................... 765
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TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES-BASED SOLAR CELLS ................................................................. 768
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CHALCOGENIDES (TMDCS) FOR IMPROVED PHOTOVOLTAIC CURRENT GENERATION...................... 772
Sayan Roy ; Zixuan Hu ; Sabre Kais ; Peter Bermel
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INTERFACES ................................................................................................................................................................... 777
Adam B. Phillips ; Geethika K. Liyanage ; Fadhil K. Alfadhili ; Michael J. Heben
STUDY OF SE AND CL SEGREGATION IN POLY-CRYSTALLINE CDSETE..................................................... 783
Jinglong Guo ; Fatih G. Sen ; Arun Mannodi-Kannakithodi ; Edward S. Barnard ; W. Sampath ; Amit Munshi ;
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ARSENIC-DOPED CDTE THIN FILMS ....................................................................................................................... 786
C.-S. Jiang ; J. Moseley ; C. Xiao ; S. Harvey ; E. Colegrove ; W. K. Metzger ; M. M. Al-Jassim
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Chan
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ASSISTED TEXTURING (MPAT) PROCESS .............................................................................................................. 795
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LIMIT................................................................................................................................................................................. 799
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HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS .............................................................................................. 807
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RESOLVED AT THE NANOSCALE.............................................................................................................................. 817
Alexandra Longacre ; Michael Martin ; Oleg V. Kolosov ; Eric Schneller ; Alan J. Curran ; Menghong Wang ;
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SOLAR CELLS ................................................................................................................................................................. 822
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SILICON ............................................................................................................................................................................ 829
Yan Zhu ; Gianluca Coletti ; Ziv Hameiri
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Valerio Zardetto ; Francesco Di Giacomo ; Dong Zhang ; Claire Burgess ; Wiljan Verhees ; Henri Fledderus ;
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; Hae-Seok Lee ; And Donghwan Kim
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MEASURED I-V CURVES AND MULTI REFERENCE LINEAR
INTERPOLATION/EXTRAPOLATION METHOD .................................................................................................... 855
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SILICON MODULES IN ALL INDIA SURVEY OF PV MODULE RELIABILITY 2018 ....................................... 861
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PV PLANT PERFORMANCE LOSS RATE ASSESSMENT: SIGNIFICANCE OF DATA
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SILICON PV MODULES INSTALLED IN DESERT REGION .................................................................................. 870
Jim Joseph John ; Ammar Elnosh ; Ahmad Safieh ; Aaesha Alnuaimi
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Jared Tracy ; William Gambogi ; Thomas Felder ; Lucie Garreau-Iles ; Hongjie Hu ; T. John Trout ; Rahul Khatri
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GENERATORS AND GRID-FORMING POWER INVERTERS................................................................................ 880
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OPTIMIZATION METHODS FOR EVALUATING PV HOSTING CAPACITY OF
DISTRIBUTION CIRCUITS ........................................................................................................................................... 887
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WITH HIGH PV PENETRATION.................................................................................................................................. 892
Joseph A. Azzolini ; Matthew J. Reno ; Matthew Lave
PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION WITH MODULE-BASED CAPACITIVE ENERGY
STORAGE.......................................................................................................................................................................... 900
Bowen Zheng ; John E. Fletcher ; Alison Lennon ; Yu Jiang ; Patrick A. Burr
INVERTER TESTING FOR VERIFICATION OF HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC RULE 14H ....................................... 906
Ramanathan Thiagarajan ; Peter Gotseff ; Andy Hoke ; Earle Ifuku
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SOLAR CELLS ................................................................................................................................................................. 911
Ola Rashwan ; Andrew Newill ; Nur Khairana Khairu Najan
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OF CUINSE2 SOLAR CELLS ......................................................................................................................................... 915
Mónica A. Botero ; María A. Mantilla ; Clara L. Calderón
STUDY OF ROOM TEMPERATURE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE FOR 1-STAGE CO-
EVAPORATED ULTRA-THIN CU(IN,GA)SE2 SOLAR CELLS ............................................................................... 920
Dilara G. Buldu ; Jessica De Wild ; Thierry Kohl ; Gizem Birant ; Guy Brammertz ; Marc Meuris ; Jef Poortmans
; Bart Vermang
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J. M. V. Cunha ; C. Rocha ; C. Vinhais ; P. A. Fernandes ; P. M. P. Salomé
ROOM TEMPERATURE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE ANALYSIS OF ALKALI TREATED
SINGLE-STAGE THIN CU(IN,GA)SE2 ABSORBER LAYERS ................................................................................. 928
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