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Pietro P. Altermatt

Pietro P. Altermatt

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
45
Citations
8109
World Ranking
3555
National Ranking
564

Overview

Pietro P. Altermatt is affiliated with Trina Solar in China and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research also encompasses environmental engineering, atomic and molecular physics, optics, renewable energy, sustainability, and materials chemistry.

The scientist's main topics of expertise include silicon and solar cell technologies, semiconductor materials and interfaces, integrated circuits and semiconductor failure analysis, semiconductor materials and devices, photovoltaic systems and sustainability, thin-film transistor technologies, and photovoltaic system optimization techniques.

Recent publications by Pietro P. Altermatt include the following:

  • Photovoltaics at multi-terawatt scale: Waiting is not an option, 2023, Science
  • The silver learning curve for photovoltaics and projected silver demand for net-zero emissions by 2050, 2022, Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications
  • Gallium-Doped Silicon for High-Efficiency Commercial Passivated Emitter and Rear Solar Cells, 2021, Solar RRL
  • Technology evolution of the photovoltaic industry: Learning from history and recent progress, 2022, Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications
  • Design considerations for the bottom cell in perovskite/silicon tandems: a terawatt scalability perspective, 2023, Energy & Environmental Science

Frequent co-authors include Ruy S. Bonilla (15 publications), Mingzhe Yu (8 publications), Isabel Al-Dhahir (7 publications), Phillip Hamer (7 publications), and Shona McNab (7 publications).

Altermatt's work has been published regularly in several venues, notably:

  • Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications
  • AIP conference proceedings
  • IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Best Publications

  • Excellent passivation of highly doped p-type Si surfaces by the negative-charge-dielectric Al2O3

    B Bram Hoex;J Jeroen Schmidt;R Bock;PP Altermatt

  • Twenty‐four percent efficient silicon solar cells with double layer antireflection coatings and reduced resistance loss

    J. Zhao;A. Wang;P. Altermatt;M. A. Green

  • Models for numerical device simulations of crystalline silicon solar cells--a review

    Pietro P. Altermatt

  • 24% efficient perl silicon solar cell: Recent improvements in high efficiency silicon cell research

    Jianhua Zhao;Aihua Wang;Pietro P. Altermatt;Stuart R. Wenham

  • Reassessment of the intrinsic carrier density in crystalline silicon in view of band-gap narrowing

    Pietro P. Altermatt;Andreas Schenk;Frank Geelhaar;Gernot Heiser

  • A simulation model for the density of states and for incomplete ionization in crystalline silicon. I. Establishing the model in Si:P

    P. P. Altermatt;A. Schenk;G. Heiser

  • 24.58% total area efficiency of screen-printed, large area industrial silicon solar cells with the tunnel oxide passivated contacts (i-TOPCon) design

    Daming Chen;Yifeng Chen;Zigang Wang;Jian Gong

  • Numerical modeling of highly doped Si:P emitters based on Fermi–Dirac statistics and self-consistent material parameters

    Pietro P. Altermatt;Jürgen O. Schumacher;Andres Cuevas;Mark J. Kerr

  • Input Parameters for the Simulation of Silicon Solar Cells in 2014

    Andreas Fell;Keith R. McIntosh;Pietro P. Altermatt;Gaby J. M. Janssen

  • Specifying targets of future research in photovoltaic devices containing pyrite (FeS2) by numerical modelling

    Pietro P. Altermatt;Tobias Kiesewetter;Klaus Ellmer;Helmut Tributsch

  • Assessment and parameterisation of Coulomb-enhanced Auger recombination coefficients in lowly injected crystalline silicon

    Pietro P. Altermatt;Jan Schmidt;Gernot Heiser;Armin G. Aberle

  • A simulation model for the density of states and for incomplete ionization in crystalline silicon. II. Investigation of Si:As and Si:B and usage in device simulation

    P. P. Altermatt;A. Schenk;B. Schmithüsen;G. Heiser

  • Mass production of industrial tunnel oxide passivated contacts (i‐TOPCon) silicon solar cells with average efficiency over 23% and modules over 345 W

    Yifeng Chen;Daming Chen;Chengfa Liu;Zigang Wang

  • Impurity-Related Limitations of Next-Generation Industrial Silicon Solar Cells

    Jan Schmidt;Bianca Lim;Dominic Walter;Karsten Bothe

  • Explanation of commonly observed shunt currents in c-Si solar cells by means of recombination statistics beyond the Shockley-Read-Hall approximation

    Silke Steingrube;Otwin Breitenstein;Klaus Ramspeck;Stefan Glunz

  • Advances in the Surface Passivation of Silicon Solar Cells

    Jan Schmidt;Florian Werner;Boris Veith;Dimitri Zielke

  • A freeware 1D emitter model for silicon solar cells

    Keith R. McIntosh;Pietro P. Altermatt

  • Spatially resolved analysis and minimization of resistive losses in high-efficiency Si solar cells

    Pietro P. Altermatt;Gernot Heiser;Armin G. Aberle;Aihua Wang

  • Limiting loss mechanisms in 23% efficient silicon solar cells

    Armin G. Aberle;Pietro P. Altermatt;Gernot Heiser;Stephen J. Robinson

  • Interpretation of recombination at c-Si/SiNx interfaces by surface damage

    Silke Steingrube;Pietro P. Altermatt;Daniel S. Steingrube;Jan Schmidt

  • The surface recombination velocity at boron-doped emitters: Comparison between various passivation techniques

    Pietro P Altermatt;H Plagwitz;R Bock;Jan Schmidt

  • 24% efficient silicon solar cells

    Jianhua Zhao;Aihua Wang;P.P. Altermatt;S.R. Wenham

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Brendel
Rolf Brendel University of Hannover
Martin A. Green
Martin A. Green University of New South Wales
Jan Schmidt
Jan Schmidt University of Hannover
Armin G. Aberle
Armin G. Aberle National University of Singapore
Stuart Wenham
Stuart Wenham University of New South Wales
Otwin Breitenstein
Otwin Breitenstein Max Planck Society
Andres Cuevas
Andres Cuevas Australian National University
Stefan W. Glunz
Stefan W. Glunz Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
Sarah Kurtz
Sarah Kurtz University of California, Merced

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