Industry Reports
World Bank Group; ESMAP; SERIS. 2019. Where Sun Meets Water : Floating Solar Handbook For Practitioners (English) Full Report and Poster
World Bank Group; ESMAP; SERIS. 2019. Where Sun Meets Water (Vol. 2) : Floating Solar Market Report (English). Full Report and Poster
World Bank Group; ESMAP; SERIS. 2018. Where Sun Meets Water: Floating Solar Market Report (Executive Summary)
Book Chapter
Synthetic Solar Irradiance: Modeling Solar Data, edited by Jamie M. Bright [AIP Publishing (online), Melville, New York, 2021], ISBN (Online): 978-0-7354-2182-0, Apr 2021 Full Chapter
Mauro Pravettoni. “Module Deployment and Energy Rating”, pp. 249-283, book chapter in “Solar Cells and Modules”, Editor Arvind Shah, EPFL (PV-Lab), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, ISSN 0933-033X ISSN 2196-2812 (electronic), Springer Series in Materials Science, ISBN 978-3-030-46485-1 ISBN 978-3-030-46487-5 (eBook), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46487-5
Rashmi Anoop Patil, Veronika Shabunko, Seeram Ramakrishna. “Renewable Energy and Circular Economy: Application of Life Cycle Costing to Building Integrated Solar Energy Systems in Singapore”, book chapter in “An Introduction to Circular Economy”, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2020, ISBN 978-981-15-8509-8.
Papers in scientific/technical journals
Padhamnath, P., Khanna, A., Nandakumar, N., Nampalli, N., Shanmugam, V., Aberle, A.G., Duttagupta, S. Development of thin polysilicon layers for application in monoPoly™ cells with screenprinted and fired metallisation. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (2020), vol 207, 110358, pp. 1-8
Hashemi, S.A., Ramakrishna, S., Aberle, A.G. Recent progress in flexible-wearable solar cells for self-powered electronic devices. Energy and Environmental Science (2020), vol. 13, pp. 685-743, doi 10.1039/C9EE03046H
Ren, Z., Oviedo, F., Thway, M., Tian, S.I.P., Wang, Y., Xue, H., Perea, J.D., Layurova, M., Heumueller, T., Birgersson, E., Aberle, A.G., Brabec, C.J., Stangl, R., Li, Q., Sun, S., Lin, F., Peters, I.M., Buonassisi, T. Embedding physics domain knowledge into a Bayesian network enables layer-by-layer process innovation for photovoltaics. NPJ, Computational Materials (2020), vol. 6, article no. 9, pp. 1-9 doi. org/10.1038/s41524-020-0277-x
Liu, X., Cheng, Y., Tang, B., Yu, Z.G., Li, M., Lin, F., Zhang, S. Zhang, Y.-W., Ouyang, J., Gong. H. Shallow defects levels and extract detrapped charges to stabilise highly efficient and hysteresis-free perovskite photovoltaic devices. Nano Energy (2020), vol. 71, 104556 (available online 7 Feb 2020)
Yan, X., Suhaimi, F., Xu, M., Yang, J., Zhang, X., Wang, Q., Jin, H., Shanmugam, V., Duttagupta, S. Development of ultra-thin doped poly-Si via LPCVD and ex-situ tube diffusion for passivated contact solar cell applications. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (2020), vol. 209, 110458, pp. 1-9
Cheng, Y., Xie, C., Liu, X., Zhu, G., Li, H.W., Venkataraj, S., Tan, Z.K., Ding, L., Aberle, A.G., Lin, F. High-power bifacial perovskite solar cells with shelf life of over 2000 h. Science Bulletin (2020), vol. 65, issue 8, pp. 607-610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2020.02.017 (available online 20 Feb 2020)
Padhamnath, P., Nampalli, N., Nandakumar, N., Buatis, J.K., Navel, M.J., Aberle, A.G., Duttagupta, S. Optoelectrical properties of highperformance low-pressure chemical vapor deposited phosphorusdoped polysilicon layers for passivating contact solar cells. Thin Solid Films (2020), vol. 699, 137886, pp. 1-9 doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2020.137886
Liang, T.S., Pravettoni, M., Singh, J.P., Khoo, Y.S. Meeting the requirements of IEC TS 60904-1-2 for single light source bifacial photovoltaic characterisation: evaluation of different back panel materials. Eng. Res. Express (2020), vol. 2, 015048 (1), pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1088/2631-8695/ab7ee5 (available online 23 Mar 2020)
Sarkar, P., Srivastava, A., Tripathy, S.K., Baishnab, K.L., Lenka, T.R., Menon, P.S., Lin, F., Aberle, A.G. Impact of Sn doping on methylammonium lead chloride perovskite: An experimental study. Journal of Applied Physics (2020), vol. 127, issue 125110 pp. 125110-1 to 125110-11 doi: 10.1063/1.5133457
Padhamnath, P., Buatis, J.K., Khanna, A., Nampalli, N., Nandakumar, N., Shanmugam, V., Aberle, A. G., Duttagupta, S. Characterisation of screen printed and fire-through contacts on LPCVD based passivating contacts in monoPolyTM solar cells. Solar Energy (2020), vol. 202, pp. 73-79 doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.03.087
Saw, M.H., Singh, J.P., Wang, Y., Birgersson, K.E., Khoo, Y.S. Electrical performance study of coloured c-Si building-integrated PV modules. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2020), vol. 10, issue 4, pp. 1027-1034 doi: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2020.2981820
Zheng, X., Xie, C., Li, W., Aberle, A.G., Venkataraj, S. Investigations of potassium-induced surface treatment of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGSe) thin film solar cells prepared by two-stage process using elemental selenium. Applied Surface Science (2020), vol. 525, 146368 pp. 1-10, doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.146368
Yan, X., Chen, N., Suhaimi, F., Zhang, X., Wang, Q., Jin, H., Shanmugam, V., Duttagupta, S. Development of high efficiency n-type front and back contact passivated emitter and rear locally diffused solar cells using atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition of phosphosilicate glass and laser processing. Physica Status Solidi A: Applications and Materials Science (2020), 2000117, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1002/pssa.202000117
Luo, W., Chen, N., Shanmugam, V., Yan, X., Duttagupta, S., Wang, Y., Aberle, A.G., Khoo, Y.S. Investigation of potential-induced degradation in bifacial n-PERL modules. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2020), vol. 10(4), pp. 935-939, doi : 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2020.2981841
Rodríguez-Gallegos, C.D., Liu, H., Gandhi, O., Singh, J.P., Krishnamurthy, V., Kumar, A., Stein, J.S., Wang, S., Li, Li, Reindl, T., Peters, I.M. Global techno-economic performanceof bifacial and tracking photovoltaic systems. Joule (2020), vol. 4, pp. 1–28, doi. org/10.1016/j.joule.2020.05.005
Sreejith, K.P., Sharma, A.K., Behera, S., Kottantharayil, A., Basu, P.K. A low cost additive-free acid texturing process for large area commercial diamond-wire-sawn multicrystalline silicon solar cells. Solar Energy 205 (2020), vol. 205, pp. 263-274, doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.015.018
Rajput, A.S., Zhang, Y., Rodríguez-Gallegos, C.D., Khanna, A., Basu, P.K., Nalluri, S., Singh. J.P. Comparative study of the electrical parameters of individual solar cells in a c-Si module extracted using indoor and outdoor electroluminescence imaging. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2020), vol. 10 (5), pp. 1396-1402, doi 10.1109/ JPHOTOV.2020.3001720
Jagt, R.A., Huq, T.N., Hill, S.A., Thway, M., Liu, T., Napari, M., Roose, B., Gałkowski, K., Li, W., Lin, S.F., Stranks, S.D., MacManusDriscoll, J.L., Hoye, R.L.Z. Rapid vapor-phase deposition of highmobility p‑type buffer layers on perovskite photovoltaics for efficient semitransparent devices. ACS Energy Lett. (2020), 5, pp. 2456−2465 (available online 22 June 2020)
Poon, K.H., Kämpf, J.H., Tay, S.E.R., Wong, N.H., Reindl, T.G. Parametric study of URBAN morphology on building solar energy potential in Singapore context. Urban Climate (2020), vol. 33, 100624, pp 1-11 doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2020.100624.
Liang, T.S., Pravettoni, M., Singh, J.P., Khoo, Y.S. A metrological study of accurate indoor characterisation of commercial bifacial photovoltaic module with single light source. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2020), vol. 10 (5), pp. 1448-1454, doi: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2020.3004932
Clement, C.E., Singh, J.P., Birgersson, E., Wang, Y., Khoo Y.S. Hotspot development and shading response of shingled PV modules. Solar Energy (2020), vol. 207, pp. 729-735 doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.06.078
Sarkar, P., Srivastava, A., Tripathy, S.K., Baishnab, K.L., Lenka, T.R., Menon, P.S., Lin, F., Aberle, A.G. Exploring the effect of Ga3+ doping on structural, electronic and optical properties of CH3NH3PbCl3 perovskites: An experimental study. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics (2020), doi: 10.1007/s10854-020-04019-w
Bright, J.M., Sun, X., Gueymard, C.A., Acord, B., Wang, P., Engerer, N. A. BRIGHT-SUN: A global applicable 1-min irradiance clear-sky detection model. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2020), vol. 121, 109706, pp. 1-20, doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2020.109706
Liu, H., Rodríguez-Gallegos, C.D., Liu, Z., Buonassisi, T., Reindl, T., Peters, I.M. A worldwide theoretical comparison of outdoor potential for various silicon-based tandem module architecture. Cell Reports, Physical Science (2020), vol. 1(4), 100037, pp. 1-20, doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2020.100037
Gandhi, O. Zhang, W., Rodríguez-Gallegos, C.D., Verbois, H., Sun, H., Reindl, T., Srinivasan, D. Local reactive power dispatch optimisation minimising global objectives. Applied Energy (2020), vol. 262(15), pp. 114529-1 to 114529-15 Doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.114529
Bright, J.M., Bai, X., Zhang, Y., Sun, X., Acord, B., Wang, P. irradpy: Python package for MERRA-2 download, extraction and usage for clear-sky irradiance modelling. Solar Energy (2020), vol. 199, pp. 685-693, doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.02.061
Kumar, D.S., Sharma, A., Srinivasan, D., Reindl, T. Impact analysis of large power networks with high share of renewables in transient conditions. IET Renewable Power Generation (2020), vol. 14(8), pp. 1349-1358, doi: 10.1049/iet-rpg.2019.1224
Luerssen, C., Gandhi, O., Reindl, T., Sekhar, C., Cheong, D. Life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) of PV-powered cooling systems with thermal energy and battery storage for off-grid applications. Applied Energy (2020), vol. 273, 115145, pp. 1-18, doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115145
Shepero, M., Lingfors, D., Widen, J., Bright, J.M., Munkhammar, J. Estimating the spatiotemporal potential of self-consuming photovoltaics energy to change electric vehicles in rural and urban Nordic areas. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (2020), vol. 12, 046301, pp. 046301-1 to 046301-13, doi.org/10/1063/5.0006893
Rodríguez-Gallegos, C.D., Gandhi, O., Panda, S.K., Reindl, T. On the PV tracker performance: Tracking the sun versus tracking the best orientation. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2020), vol. 10(5), pp.1474- 1480, doi: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2020.3006994
Gandhi, O., Kumar, D.S., Rodríguez-Gallegos, C.D., Srinivasan, D. Review of power system impacts at high PV penetration Part I: Factors limiting PV penetration. Solar Energy (2020), vol. 210, pp. 181-201, doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.06.097
Liu, X., Yu, Z., Wang, T., Chiu, K.L., Lin, F., Gong, H., Ding, L., Cheng, Y. Full defects passivation enables 21% efficiency perovskite solar cell operating in air. Advanced Energy Materials (2020), vol. 10(38), pp. 2001958-1 to 2001958-9, doi.org/10.1002.aenm.202001958
Xie, C., Zhao, X., Ong, E.W.Y., Tan, Z.K. Transparent near-infrared perovskite light-emitting diodes. Nature Communications (2020), vol.11, article no. 4213, pp. 1-5, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18110- 7 (available online 25 Aug 2020)
Kaur, G., Xin, Z., Dutta, T., Sridharan, R., Stangl, R., Danner, A. Improved silicon oxide/polysilicon passivated contacts for high efficiency solar cells via optimised tunnel layer annealing. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (2020), vol. 217, 110720, pp. 1-10, doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2020.110720
Yang, D., Bright, J.M. Worldwide validation of 8 satellite-drived and reanalysis solar radiation products: A preliminary evaluation and overall metrics for hourly data over 27 years. Solar Energy (2020), vol. 210, pp. 3-19, doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.04.016
Yang, D., Alessandrini, S., Antonanzas, J., Antonanzas-Torres, F., Badescu, V., Beyer, H.G., Biaga, R., Boland, J., Bright, J.M. et al. Verification of deterministic solar forecasts. Solar Energy (2020), vol. 210, pp. 20-37, doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.04.019
Padhamnath, P., Khanna, A., Balaji, N., Shanmugam, V., Nandakumar, N., Wang, D., Sun, Q., Huang, M., Huang, S., Fan, B., Ding, B., Aberle, A.G., Duttagupta, S. Progress in screen-printed metallisation of industrial solar cells with SiOx /poly-Si passivating contacts. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (2020), vol. 218, pp. 110751-1 to 110751-9, doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2020.110751
Kaur, G., Xin, Z., Sridharan, R., Danner, A., Stangl, R. Engineering aluminium oxide/polysilicon hole-selective passivated contacts for high efficiency solar cells. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (2020), vol. 218, 110758, pp. 1-11, doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2020.110758
Ananthanarayanan, D., Leon, J.J.D., Wong, J., Nicolay, S., Aberle, A.G., Ho, J.W. Mid-infrared characterisation and modelling of transparent conductive oxides. Solar Energy (2020), vol. 209, pp. 424-430, doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.09.020
Dey, K., Aberle, A.G., van Eek, S., Venkataraj, S. Superior optoelectrical properties of magnetron sputter-deposited cerium-doped indium oxide thin films for solar cell applications. Ceramics International 47 (2021), pp.1798-1806, doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2020.09.006 (available online 3 Sep 2020
Srivastava, A., Sarkar, P., Tripathy, S.K., Lenka, T.R., Menon, P.S., Lin, F., Aberle, A.G. Structural, electronic and optical properties of Ag2MgSn(S/Se)4 quaternary chalcogenides as solar cell absorber layer: An Ab-initio study. Solar Energy (2020), vol. 209, pp. 206-213, doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.08.094
Xue, H., Stangl, R., Birgersson, E. Elucidating the functional form of the recombination losses in a planar perovskite solar cell: A scaling analysis. Journal of Applied Physics (2020), vol. 128(12), 123102, pp. 123102-1 to 123102-14, doi.org/10.1063/5.0013741
Ma, Y., Cheng, Y., Xu, X., Li, M., Zhang, C., Cheung, S.H., Zeng, Z., Shen, D., Xie, Y.M., Chiu, K.L., Lin, F., So, S.K., Lee, C.S., Tsang, S.W. Suppressing ion migration across perovskite grain boundaries by polymer additives. Advanced Functional Materials (2020), 202006802, pp. 1-9, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202006802
Wang, P., Sridharan, R., Ng, X.R., Ho, J.W., Stangl, R. Development of TOPCon tunnel-IBC solar cells with screen-printed fire-through contacts by laser patterning. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, (2021), vol. 220, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2020.110834 (available online 1 Nov 2020)
Pavanello, D., Galleano, R., Zaaiman, W., Ankit, M., Kouremeti, N., Gröbner, J., Hoogendijk, K., Po, M., Lisbona, E.F., Alius, W., Dosenicova, D., Kroeger, I., Friedrich, D., Haverkamp, E., Minuto, A., Celi, E., Pravettoni, M., Bellenda, G., Fucci, R. Results of the IX international spectroradiometer intercomparison and impact on precise measurements of new photovoltaic technologies. Prog. Photovolt. Res. Appl. (2020), pp. 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1002/pip.3347
Sun, X., Bright, J.M., Gueymard, C.A., Bai, X., Acord, B., Wang, P. Worldwide performance assessment of 95 direct and diffuse clear-sky irradiance models using principal component analysis. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 135 (2021), 110087 (available online 14 Aug 2020)
Frimane, A., Bright, J.M., Yang, D., Ouhammou, B., Aggour, M. Dirichlet downscaling model for synthetic solar irradiance time series. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, vol. 12, issue 6, 10.1063/5.0028267 (available online 17 Nov 2020)
Tablada, A., Kosorić, V., Huang, H., Lau, S.S.Y., Shabunko, V. Architectural quality of the productive façades integrating photovoltaic and vertical farming systems: Survey among experts in Singapore. Frontiers of Architectural Research (2020), vol. 9, issue 2, pp. 301-318
González-Díaz, B., Saw, M.H., Hernández-Rodríguez, C., Sanchiz, J., Khoo, Y.S., Guerrero-Lemus, R. Evolution of the external quantum efficiency of Si-based PV minimodules with encapsulated down-shifters and aged under UV radiation. Materials Science and Engineering: B (2020), vol. 261, 114763 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2020.114763
Cheng, Y., Liu, X., Guan, Z., Li, M., Zeng, Z., Li, H-W., Tsang, S-W., Aberle, A.G., Lin, F. Revealing the degradation and self-healing mechanisms in perovskite solar cells by sub-bandgap external quantum efficiency spectroscopy. Advanced Materials (2020), doi: 10.1002/adma.202006170 (available online 9 Dec 2020)
Dwivedi, N., Dhand, C., Anderson, E.C., Kumar, R., Liao, B., Yeo, R.J., Khan, R., Carey, J.D., Saifullah, M.S.M., Kumar, S., Malik, H.K., Hashmi, S.A.R., Srivastava, A.K., Sankaranarayanan, S.K.R.S., Stangl, R., Duttagupta, S. Solution processable high performance multiwall carbon nanotube–Si heterojunctions. Adv. Electron. Mater.(2020), 2000617, doi: 10.1002/aelm.202000617
Lau, S.K., Zhao, Y., Lau. S.S., Yuan, C, Shabunko, V. An investigation on ventilation of building-integrated photovoltaics system using numerical modeling. Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 142, no. 1 (2020)
Papers/articles in PV Industry magazines
Nandakumar, N., Nampalli, N., Padhamnath, P., Duttagupta, S. monoPolyTM to biPolyTM: Low-cost passivating contact technologies for efficiencies towards 25%. PV International, 45(6), pp.73-77, Nov 2020
Wong, J., Mitchell, B., Esefelder, S., Mette, B., Tjahjono, B., Choi, K.B., Ho, J.W., Deans, G. Statistical insights from inline solar cell metrology data in a PERC production environment. PV International edition 44, technical paper, Jun 2020
Paton, C. Will Africa follow suit on Asia’s upbeat plans to develop floating solar across the continent? http://afsiasolar.com/datacenter/reports/, Jan 2020
Conference papers
Araki, K., Ji, L., Kelly, G., van der Ham, A., Agudo, E., Antón, I., Baudrit, M., Carr, A., Herrero, R., Kurtz, S., Liu, Z., Pravettoni, M., Ota, Y., Tobita, H., Yoon, S., Yoshita, M., Yamaguchi, M., Nishioka, K. How did the knowledge of CPV contribute to the standardisation activity of VIPV? AIP Conference Proceedings 2298, 060001 (2020), 16th International Conference on Concentrator Photovoltaic Systems (CPV-16), 04-06 May 2020, USA https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0032997 (published online: 09 Nov 2020)
Agarwal, Y., Das, B., Dutta, A.J., Deka, A.A., Tripathy, S.K., Lenka, T.R., Menon, P.S., Lin, F., Aberle, A.G. Numerical simulation of tunneling effect in high-efficiency perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell. 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference virtual meeting, 15 Jun-21 Aug 2020
Bright, J.M. Ramp rate analysis for forecasting operations in Singapore. 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference virtual meeting, 15 Jun-21 Aug 2020
Braga, M., Vidal de Oliveira, A.K., Burnham, L., Dittmann, S., Gottschalg, R., Betts, T.R., Reindl, T., Rodriguez Gallegos, C.D., Rüther, R. Preliminary results of a collaborative study on solar overirradiance events worldwide. 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference virtual meeting, 15 Jun-21 Aug 2020
Kaur, G., Zheng, X., Danner, A., Stangl, R. Can interface charge enhance carrier selectivity in tunnel-layer/poly-Si passivated contacts? 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference virtual meeting, 15 Jun-21 Aug 2020
Ng, X.R., Wang P., Liu, T., Stangl, R., Aberle, A.G., Lin, F. Novel firing stable n+/p+ polysilicon tunnel junction and its successful device integration. 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference virtual meeting, 15 Jun-21 Aug 2020
Teo, B.H., Khanna, A., Shanmugam, V., De Luna, G.A., Tabajonda, R.V., Epistola, J.J., Chang, W.C., Mueller, T. Improved screen-printed Cu metallisation for passivated contact solar cells. 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference virtual meeting, 15 Jun-21 Aug 2020
Sun, H., Heng, C.K., Tay, S.E.R., Reindl, T. Multi-layer mapping tool for assessing the feasibility of building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) application on facade surfaces. 13th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism, China, 9-12 Oct 2020