The book chapter shows that surface passivation technologies have played a crucial role in the development of industrial silicon solar cells over the past 40 years, and they will continue to do so in the future. The authors describe a variety of surface passivation techniques that will help to take industrial silicon solar cells to even greater heights, ensuring ongoing reductions of the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) from PV systems and their global deployment on a massive scale.

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Inspec keywords: industrial economics; solar cells; passivation; semiconductor industry; power generation economics; elemental semiconductors; silicon

Other keywords: global deployment; PV systems; levelized electricity cost; industrial crystalline silicon solar cells; surface passivation

Subjects: Optoelectronics manufacturing; Energy and environmental policy, economics and legislation; Economics; Semiconductor industry; Solar cells and arrays; Surface treatment and coating techniques; Surface treatment and degradation in semiconductor technology; Surface treatment (semiconductor technology); Photoelectric conversion; solar cells and arrays