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Crystalline silicon solar cells are today’s main photovoltaic technology, enabling the production of electricity with minimal carbon emissions and at an unprecedented low cost. This Review discusses the recent evolution of this technology, the present status of research and industrial development, and the near-future perspectives.
Silicon-based solar cells can either be monocrystalline or multicrystalline, depending on the presence of one or multiple grains in the microstructure. This, in turn, affects the solar cells’ properties, particularly their efficiency and performance.
Thin wafers which were taken from an especially grown continuous crystal are used to form m-crystalline silicon solar PV cells. Silicon material is first melted and then poured into a mould to form p-crystalline silicon solar PV cells.
Monocrystalline solar cells reached efficiencies of 20% in the laboratory in 1985 (ref. 238) and of 26.2% under 100× concentration in 1988 (ref. 239). In this period, the efficiency of industrial solar cells slowly grew from 12% to 14.5%.
The development of the PV industry is a vigorous competition between mono- and multi-crystalline silicon, as well as their crystal growth technologies, which will be focused on shortly. Crystal growth was not the single factor in getting the Holly Grail of the ultimate technology; the slicing and advanced solar cell concepts played crucial roles.
Except for niche applications (which still constitute a lot of opportunities), the status of crystalline silicon shows that a solar technology needs to go over 22% module efficiency at a cost below US$0.2 W −1 within the next 5 years to be competitive on the mass market.
Crystalline silicon solar cells are today''s main photovoltaic technology, enabling the production of electricity with minimal carbon emissions and at an unprecedented low cost.
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