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Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Prussian White and NVP/C‐Based Sodium‐Ion Batteries Based on Primary Laboratory Data Open

Friedrich B. Jasper, Manuel Baumann, Hüseyin Ersoy, Anna Smith, Sebastian Büchele , et al. · 2025

Sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) are considered the most promising candidate for electrochemical storage after lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) to meet the globally growing energy storage demand. Assessments to identify environmental hotspots and a…

Pushing the boundaries: Challenges that arise in manufacturing and designing photovoltaic modules for new application areas Open

Aksel Kaan Öz, Sebastian Neven-du Mont, Veronika Nikitina, Pascal Romer, Daniel von Kutzleben , et al. · 2025

This work discusses challenges arising from the trends in the photovoltaic (PV) market, for new cell types and for modules used for special applications such as vehicle-integrated photovoltaic (VIPV), building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV…

Towards fiber-reinforced front-sheets for lightweight PV modules in VIPV Open

M. Schüler, M. Goth, Jochen Markert, Luis Eduardo Alanis, C. Kutter , et al. · 2024

Design aspects in consideration of hotspot phenomena in high-performance photovoltaic modules featuring different silicon solar cell architectures Open

Christian Reichel, Jacob Forster, Benedictus Artha, Kaare Ingwersen, Ammar Tummalieh , et al. · 2024

Thermal effect of VIPV modules in refrigerated trucks Open

Luis Eduardo Alanis, Andreas Velte, Nishant Jajoo, Marc-Andre Schüler, Li Carlos Rendler , et al. · 2024

The integration of Photovoltaic (PV) modules within the outer structure of commercial transporters offers a great potential as an additional source of energy that can be utilized, for example, directly by the drive train of the vehicle, or…

The European Union's Ecodesign Directive – Analysis of Carbon Footprint Assessment Methodology and Implications for Photovoltaic Module Manufacturers Open

Abeer Ali Khan, Pamela Molina, Christian Reichel, Alexander Aguilar Protti, Dirk Holger Neuhaus , et al. · 2024

With an increasing shift away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy sources within the European Union (EU), photovoltaics (PV) are projected to see substantial growth with estimates of nearly 600 GWp of capacity by 2030. As the use of …

Progress with luminescence imaging for the characterisation of silicon wafers and solar cells Open

Thorsten Trupke, R.A. Bardos, Malcolm Abbott, P. Würfel, E. Pink , et al. · 2022

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Wave-shaped wires for the interconnection of silicon solar cells without pads or busbars Open

Li Carlos Rendler, Andrea Pfreundt, M. Mittag, Achim Kraft, Dirk Holger Neuhaus · 2022

A reliable interconnection of silicon solar cells without pads or busbars by soldering directly on the contact finger grid is possible using wave-shaped wires. However, disadvantages caused by the modified geometry of wire interconnectors …

Performance of shingled solar modules under partial shading Open

Nils Klasen, Daniel Weisser, Torsten Rößler, Dirk Holger Neuhaus, Achim Kraft · 2021

Significant progress in the development and commercialization of electrically conductive adhesives has been made. This makes shingling a very attractive approach for solar cell interconnection. In this study, we investigate the shading tol…

Review of technological design options for building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) Open

Tilmann E. Kuhn, Christof Erban, Martin Heinrich, Johannes Eisenlohr, Frank Ensslen , et al. · 2020

This paper reviews and analyzes technological design options, which have become available to date for BIPV systems on roofs and facades, independently of specific products or building projects. This means that this survey does not analyze …

Potential and Challenges of Vehicle Integrated Photovoltaics for Passenger Cars Open

H. Wirth, Dirk Holger Neuhaus, T. Kroyer, Christian Reise, Andreas Schmid , et al. · 2020

We provide a general overview on vehicle integrated photovoltaics (VIPV) for passenger cars. Historic examples are reviewed to demonstrate that VIPV can provide an economic benefit due to the current and unique setting of very low solar ce…

Energy Yield Modelling of 2D and 3D Curved Photovoltaic Modules Open

Dirk Holger Neuhaus, Ammar Tummalieh, C. Kutter, Andrea Pfreundt, Martin Heinrich , et al. · 2020

This paper presents a detailed model to simulate the energy yield potential of various designs of curved PV modules depending on their bending angle, orientation and location. Furthermore, we analyze the effective irradiance incident on th…

Integrated Lightweight, Glass-Free PV Module Technology for Box Bodies of Commercial Trucks Open

Dirk Holger Neuhaus, Martin Heinrich, Jochen Markert, Luis Eduardo Alanis, Felix Basler , et al. · 2020

We propose a new integrated photovoltaic module technology and manufacturing process for the seamless integration into box body roofs of commercial trucks to unlock a 90.2 GW potential in the EU. Our approach is to laminate c-Si photovolta…

The Effect of Cell and Module Dimensions on Thermomechanical Stress in PV Modules Open

Andreas J. Beinert, Pascal Romer, Martin Heinrich, M. Mittag, Jarir Aktaa , et al. · 2019

We present an evaluation of the silicon solar cell as well as the photovoltaic (PV) module size and its effect on thermomechanical stress. The evaluation is based on finite-element method (FEM) simulations. Within these simulations, we per…

Accelerated TC Test in Comparison with Standard TC Test for PV Modules with Ribbon, Wire and Shingle Interconnection Open

Dirk Holger Neuhaus, Achim Kraft, G. Mülhöfer, D. Eberlein, Li Carlos Rendler , et al. · 2019

Temperature changes in the field (day-night changes and seasons) can affect the performance of photovoltaic modules. Standard IEC 61215 temperature cycling (TC) tests emulate this ageing typically requiring 30 to 50 days for 200 thermal cy…

Quantitative local efficiency loss analysis on cast-mono PERC solar cells using the DLIT ‘local I-V’ method Open

M. Müller, Matthias Wagner, A. Krause, Dirk Holger Neuhaus · 2018

Dark lock-in thermography (DLIT) combined with the 'local I-V' method is applied to derive spatial-resolved efficiency losses and potentials for cast-mono PERC solar cells during wafer and cell developing phase. For the DLIT image evaluati…

Development and characterization of multifunctional PECVD SiNX:P layers for laser-doped selective emitters Open

Mohammad Hassan Norouzi, Pierre Saint‐Cast, Elmar Lohmüller, Julian Weber, Simon Gutscher , et al. · 2018

We apply stacks of silicon nitride (SiNX) layers consisting of phosphorus-doped SiNX (SiNX:P) and undoped SiNX as first and second layer, on the front surface of p-type monocrystalline silicon passivated emitter and rear cells (PERC). The …

Loss analysis of 22% efficient industrial PERC solar cells Open

M. Müller, Gerd Fischer, Bernd Bitnar, Stefan Steckemetz, Roman Schiepe , et al. · 2017

The efficiency record of industrial type PERC solar cells exceeded 22% at the turn of the year 2015 to 2016. Our best screen-printed PERC solar cell reached 22.04% efficiency while the best cell batch showed a very narrow efficiency distri…

Modeling of Edge Recombination Losses in Half-Cells Open

Andreas Fell, Hendrik Sträter, M. Müller, Heiko Steinkemper, Jonas Schön , et al. · 2017

A new approach to model the impact of edge recombination within silicon solar cells using a 3D simulation of the entire cell geometry within Quokka3 is presented. The contribution of edge recombination within the space charge region (SCR),…

The PERC+ Cell: a 21%-Efficient Industrial Bifacial PERC Solar Cell Open

Dirk Holger Neuhaus, Phedon Palinginis, Gerd Fischer, M. Müller, M. Kutzer , et al. · 2015

Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC) solar cells are currently being introduced into mass production. In this paper we report a novel PERC solar cell design which applies a screen-printed rear Al finger grid instead of the conventional …

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