EPJ Photovoltaics

Open Access journal which publishes original, peer-reviewed papers focused in the field of photovoltaic solar energy conversion.

Special Issue on ‘EU PVSEC 2024: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Robert Kenny and Gabriele Eder

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Benchmarking equivalent circuit models for the IV characteristic of bifacial photovoltaic modules

Martin Bartholomäus, Luca Morino, Peter B. Poulsen and Sergiu V. Spataru

EPJ Photovolt., 16 (2025) 12

Published online: 16 January 2025
Special Issue on ‘EU PVSEC 2024: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Robert Kenny and Gabriele Eder

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24% Efficient TOPCon-based back contacted polyZEBRA solar cells

Jonathan Linke, Christoph Peter, Jan Hoß, Saman Sharbaf Kalaghichi, Valentin Mihailetchi, Jan Lossen and Florian Buchholz

EPJ Photovolt., 16 (2025) 8

Published online: 15 January 2025
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Contactless defects detection using modulated photoluminescence technique: model for a single Shockley-Read-Hall trap in a semiconductor thin layer

Baptiste Bérenguier, Alban Asseko, Hiba Haddara, Sylvain Le Gall, Jean-Paul Kleider and Jean-François Guillemoles

EPJ Photovolt., 16 (2025) 11

Published online: 14 January 2025
Special Issue on ‘EU PVSEC 2024: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Robert Kenny and Gabriele Eder

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Material screening for the development of a photovoltaic module using biodegradable materials from renewable raw materials

Matthias Pander, Ringo Koepge, Bengt Jaeckel and Anton Mordvinkin

EPJ Photovolt., 16 (2025) 10

Published online: 10 January 2025
Special Issue on ‘EU PVSEC 2024: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Robert Kenny and Gabriele Eder

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Investigation of temperature homogeneity during infrared soldering of silicon solar cells using the finite element method

Daniel Christopher Joseph, Angela De Rose, Dirk Eberlein, Onur Parlayan, Benjamin Grübel, Andreas J. Beinert and Holger Neuhaus

EPJ Photovolt., 16 (2025) 9

Published online: 09 January 2025
Special Issue on ‘EU PVSEC 2024: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Robert Kenny and Gabriele Eder

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Increasing the self-sufficiency of a university campus by expanding the PV capacity while minimizing the energy cost

Tina Arizo Randrianantenaina, Josselin Le Gal La Salle, Sergiu Viorel Spataru and Mathieu David

EPJ Photovolt., 16 (2025) 7

Published online: 08 January 2025
Special Issue on ‘EU PVSEC 2024: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Robert Kenny and Gabriele Eder

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Project “BUSSARD” − a holistic development of high-efficiency solar cells covering innovative front-end, metallization and interconnection approaches

Andreas Lorenz, Jörg Schube, Veronika Nikitina, Sebastian Mack, Sebastian Schweigert, Jonas Buddgard, Jonas Albrecht, Maximilian Pospischil, Achim Kraft, Andreas Wolf et al. (2 more)

EPJ Photovolt., 16 (2025) 6

Published online: 08 January 2025
Special Issue on ‘EU PVSEC 2024: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Robert Kenny and Gabriele Eder

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Approaches for reducing metallization-induced losses in industrial TOPCon solar cells

Sebastian Mack, Daniel Ourinson, Marius Meßmer, Christopher Teßmann, Katrin Krieg, Jan Benick, Jonas D. Huyeng, Johannes Greulich and Andreas Wolf

EPJ Photovolt., 16 (2025) 5

Published online: 08 January 2025

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632	Open Access Snapshot of photovoltaics − February 2024 Arnulf Jäger-Waldau EPJ Photovolt., 15 (2024) 21 Published online: 10 June 2024
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