EPJ Photovoltaics

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

Special Issue on ‘WCPEC-8: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Alessandra Scognamiglio, Robert Kenny, Shuzi Hayase and Arno Smets

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In situ minority carrier lifetime via fast modulated photoluminescence

Mateusz Poplawski, François Silva, Jean-Charles Vanel and Pere Roca i Cabarrocas

EPJ Photovolt., 14 (2023) 19

Published online: 17 May 2023
Special Issue on ‘WCPEC-8: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Alessandra Scognamiglio, Robert Kenny, Shuzi Hayase and Arno Smets

Open Access

Impact of the contacting scheme on I-V measurements of metallization-free silicon heterojunction solar cells

Malte Brinkmann, Felix Haase, Karsten Bothe, Karsten Bittkau, Andreas Lambertz, Weiyuan Duan, Kaining Ding, Hans-Peter Sperlich, Andreas Waltinger and Henning Schulte-Huxel

EPJ Photovolt., 14 (2023) 18

Published online: 26 April 2023
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Reverse-bias behaviour of thin-film solar cells: effects of measurement-induced heating

Stephan J. Heise, Asliddin Komilov, Michael Richter, Bart Pieters, Andreas Gerber and Janet Neerken

EPJ Photovolt., 14 (2023) 17

Published online: 12 April 2023
Special Issue on ‘WCPEC-8: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Alessandra Scognamiglio, Robert Kenny, Shuzi Hayase and Arno Smets

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Laser-based monolithic series interconnection of two-terminal perovskite-CIGSe tandem solar cells: determination of the optimal scribe line properties

Christof Schultz, Guillermo Antonio Farias Basulto, Nicolas Otto, Janardan Dagar, Andreas Bartelt, Rutger Schlatmann, Eva Unger and Bert Stegemann

EPJ Photovolt., 14 (2023) 16

Published online: 30 March 2023
Special Issue on ‘WCPEC-8: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Alessandra Scognamiglio, Robert Kenny, Shuzi Hayase and Arno Smets

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Benchmark of eight commercial solutions for deterministic intra-day solar forecast

Jonathan Lehmann, Christian Koessler, Lina Ruiz Gomez and Stijn Scheerlinck

EPJ Photovolt., 14 (2023) 15

Published online: 21 March 2023
Special Issue on ‘WCPEC-8: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Alessandra Scognamiglio, Robert Kenny, Shuzi Hayase and Arno Smets

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Evaluating the effects of photovoltaic module heating during electroluminescence inspection

Lukas Koester, Emanuel Vallarella, Atse Louwen, Sascha Lindig and David Moser

EPJ Photovolt., 14 (2023) 14

Published online: 16 March 2023
Special Issue on ‘WCPEC-8: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Alessandra Scognamiglio, Robert Kenny, Shuzi Hayase and Arno Smets

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Assessing the long-term stability of laser enhanced contact optimization (LECO) treated PERC cells in PV modules by extended indoor and outdoor durability tests

Eve Krassowski, Bengt Jaeckel, Matthias Pander, David Daßler and Stephanie Malik

EPJ Photovolt., 14 (2023) 13

Published online: 07 March 2023
Special Issue on ‘WCPEC-8: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics’, edited by Alessandra Scognamiglio, Robert Kenny, Shuzi Hayase and Arno Smets

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Identifying defects on solar cells using magnetic field measurements and artificial intelligence trained by a finite-element-model

Kjell Buehler, Kai Kaufmann, Markus Patzold, Mawe Sprenger and Stephan Schoenfelder

EPJ Photovolt., 14 (2023) 12

Published online: 27 February 2023

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