Chanyong Lee, Taemin Kim, Yoonmook Kang, Jongwon Ko, Dowon Pyun, Moo Young Jung, Seungkyu Kim, Kyungjin Chae, Seaeun Park, Jihye Park, Subin Eom, Yohan Ko, Changhyun Lee, Yong Ju Yun, Hae Jung Son, Yongseok Jun
{"title":"Transparent Photovoltaics Using Parallel Silicon Strips in Polymer Scaffold","authors":"Chanyong Lee, Taemin Kim, Yoonmook Kang, Jongwon Ko, Dowon Pyun, Moo Young Jung, Seungkyu Kim, Kyungjin Chae, Seaeun Park, Jihye Park, Subin Eom, Yohan Ko, Changhyun Lee, Yong Ju Yun, Hae Jung Son, Yongseok Jun","doi":"10.1002/pip.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pip.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":223,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Photovoltaics","volume":"34 4","pages":"396-405"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"Photovoltaics Literature Survey (No. 205)","authors":"Ziv Hameiri","doi":"10.1002/pip.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pip.70069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Photovoltaics","volume":"34 3","pages":"357-360"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146136235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"Photovoltaics Literature Survey (No. 204)","authors":"Ziv Hameiri","doi":"10.1002/pip.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pip.70062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Photovoltaics","volume":"34 2","pages":"232-236"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145969748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Pei-Chieh Hsiao, Zhimeng Wang, Jack Colwell, Daniel Chen, Chris Huang, Vince Allen, Alison Lennon, Renate Egan
{"title":"Investigation and Simulation of Thermomechanical Stress Induced by Plated Cu Contacts on Si Heterojunction Solar Cells","authors":"Pei-Chieh Hsiao, Zhimeng Wang, Jack Colwell, Daniel Chen, Chris Huang, Vince Allen, Alison Lennon, Renate Egan","doi":"10.1002/pip.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pip.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigated the thermomechanical stress induced by annealing plated Cu contacts on pyramidal surfaces of Si heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells. The homogeneity of cell temperature during annealing was assessed by both experiment and simulation. Several influential factors on the Si stress were evaluated, including Cu geometries, contact edge locations, contact width, pyramid size, and annealing temperature. The simulated stress, which was verified by Raman spectroscopy, was applied to predict the probability of fracture in combination with the Weibull diagram obtained from four-point flexural (4PF) tests. Despite the identification of limiting flaw populations at the Si surface of Cu-plated SHJ cells, a low fracture probability was estimated for a typical annealing temperature of 200°C.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":223,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Photovoltaics","volume":"34 3","pages":"336-356"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146139193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Remi Aninat, Maarten van der Vleuten, Jules Scraigne, Henri Fledderus, Anne Biezemans, Johan Bosman, Joao Gomes, Ando Kuypers, Mirjam Theelen
{"title":"Laser-Assisted Delamination for High-Value Recycling of Solar Panels","authors":"Remi Aninat, Maarten van der Vleuten, Jules Scraigne, Henri Fledderus, Anne Biezemans, Johan Bosman, Joao Gomes, Ando Kuypers, Mirjam Theelen","doi":"10.1002/pip.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pip.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>With the increasingly large volumes of silicon solar panels being decommissioned worldwide, we urgently need to come up with a cheap and efficient recycling strategy that yields high-value output materials. A crucial step in such recycling is to delaminate the front and back sheets to access the cells and their metallization. In this work, we demonstrate that the adhesion between the encapsulant and the silicon wafers can be weakened, in a fast and effective way, using a picosecond pulsed near-infrared laser. The glass and encapsulant are then delaminated from the silicon wafer in a thermomechanical step. This method provides direct access to the silicon emitter and bulk as well as the precious and/or toxic metals on its surface, enabling their recycling. Ablation threshold experiments show that the IR laser mostly interacts with the silicon, thereby indirectly ablating the SiN<sub>x</sub> anti-reflective coating. We show that laser pattern and laser setting optimization help strike a balance between effective silicon wafer surface ablation and minimal (submicron thick) contamination from the encapsulant, due to lower heat dissipation into the wafer and encapsulant. The SiN<sub>x</sub> removal, combined with high potential throughput and low OpEx, sets this process apart from existing delamination techniques. The process described in this paper can be crucial to enable rapid and energy-efficient recycling of silicon PV modules to high-purity raw materials with a high recovery rate.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":223,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Photovoltaics","volume":"34 3","pages":"297-309"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146140220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}