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Rolf Brendel is affiliated with the University of Hannover in Germany and specializes primarily in the field of engineering, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research also spans several subfields including atomic and molecular physics, optics, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, materials chemistry, and environmental engineering.

Their work is concentrated around core topics such as silicon and solar cell technologies, thin-film transistor technologies, semiconductor materials and interfaces, integrated energy systems optimization, solar cell performance optimization, silicon nanostructures and photoluminescence, and photovoltaic system optimization techniques.

Brendel has published extensively in numerous scientific venues. Their most frequent publication platforms include Solar RRL, Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Recent notable papers by Brendel feature contributions to understanding and improving solar cell efficiency and related technologies. These include:

  • Separating the two polarities of the POLO contacts of an 26.1%-efficient IBC solar cell, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Evolutionary PERC+ solar cell efficiency projection towards 24% evaluating shadow-mask-deposited poly-Si fingers below the Ag front contact as next improvement step, 2020, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
  • Simulation-based roadmap for the integration of poly-silicon on oxide contacts into screen-printed crystalline silicon solar cells, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Firing-Stable PECVD SiOxNy/n-Poly-Si Surface Passivation for Silicon Solar Cells, 2021, ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Hydrogen supply scenarios for a climate neutral energy system in Germany, 2022, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Throughout their career, Brendel has frequently collaborated with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include Robby Peibst, Byungsul Min, Raphael Niepelt, Marlon Schlemminger, and Felix Haase, reflecting ongoing partnerships within the solar cell and semiconductor research community.

Best Publications

  • Laser contact openings for local poly-Si-metal contacts enabling 26.1%-efficient POLO-IBC solar cells

    Felix Haase;Christina Hollemann;Sören Schäfer;Agnes Merkle

  • Surface passivation of high‐efficiency silicon solar cells by atomic‐layer‐deposited Al2O3

    J Jeroen Schmidt;A Merkle;R Brendel;B Bram Hoex

  • Uncertainty analysis for the coefficient of band-to-band absorption of crystalline silicon

    Carsten Schinke;P. Christian Peest;Jan Schmidt;Rolf Brendel

  • Surface passivation of crystalline silicon solar cells: Present and future

    Jan Schmidt;Robby Peibst;Rolf Brendel

  • An infrared dielectric function model for amorphous solids

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  • 19%‐efficient and 43 µm‐thick crystalline Si solar cell from layer transfer using porous silicon

    Jan Hendrik Petermann;Dimitri Zielke;Jan Schmidt;Felix Haase

  • Electronic and chemical properties of the c-Si/Al2O3 interface

    Florian Werner;Boris Veith;Dimitri Zielke;Lisa Kühnemund

  • Recombination behavior and contact resistance of n+ and p+ poly-crystalline Si/mono-crystalline Si junctions

    Udo Römer;Robby Peibst;Tobias Ohrdes;Bianca Lim

  • Effective surface passivation of crystalline silicon using ultrathin Al2O3 films and Al2O3/SiNx stacks

    Jan Schmidt;Boris Veith;Rolf Brendel

  • Series resistance imaging of solar cells by voltage dependent electroluminescence

    David Hinken;Klaus Ramspeck;Karsten Bothe;Bernhard Fischer

  • Working principle of carrier selective poly-Si/c-Si junctions: Is tunnelling the whole story?

    R. Peibst;U. Römer;Y. Larionova;M. Rienäcker

  • Contact Selectivity and Efficiency in Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics

    Rolf Brendel;Robby Peibst

  • Review of Layer Transfer Processes for Crystalline Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

    Rolf Brendel

  • Recombination current and series resistance imaging of solar cells by combined luminescence and lock-in thermography

    K. Ramspeck;K. Bothe;D. Hinken;B. Fischer

  • Ion Implantation for Poly-Si Passivated Back-Junction Back-Contacted Solar Cells

    Udo Romer;Robby Peibst;Tobias Ohrdes;Bianca Lim

  • 20 1%-efficient Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell with Amorphous Silicon Rear-surface Passivation

    Martin Schaper;Jan Schmidt;Heiko Plagwitz;Rolf Brendel

  • 19.4%-efficient large-area fully screen-printed silicon solar cells

    Sebastian Gatz;Helge Hannebauer;Rene Hesse;Florian Werner

  • A Roadmap Toward 24% Efficient PERC Solar Cells in Industrial Mass Production

    Byungsul Min;Matthias Muller;Hannes Wagner;Gerd Fischer

  • Photoconductance‐calibrated photoluminescence lifetime imaging of crystalline silicon

    Sandra Herlufsen;Jan Schmidt;David Hinken;Karsten Bothe

  • Quantum efficiency analysis of thin-layer silicon solar cells with back surface fields and optical confinement

    R. Brendel;M. Hirsch;R. Plieninger;J.H. Werner

  • Towards 20% efficient large-area screen-printed rear-passivated silicon solar cells

    Thorsten Dullweber;Sebastian Gatz;Helge Hannebauer;Tom Falcon

  • Solar cell efficiency and carrier multiplication in Si1−xGex alloys

    M. Wolf;R. Brendel;J. H. Werner;H. J. Queisser

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Schmidt
Jan Schmidt University of Hannover
Bram Hoex
Bram Hoex University of New South Wales
Andres Cuevas
Andres Cuevas Australian National University
Jürgen H. Werner
Jürgen H. Werner University of Stuttgart
Lars Korte
Lars Korte Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Stefan W. Glunz
Stefan W. Glunz Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
Jef Poortmans
Jef Poortmans KU Leuven
Christophe Ballif
Christophe Ballif École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Armin G. Aberle
Armin G. Aberle National University of Singapore

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