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Sylvain Nicolay is affiliated with the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Engineering, with a concentration in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several specific topics, including:

  • Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies
  • Thin-Film Transistor Technologies
  • Semiconductor materials and interfaces
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems

Sylvain Nicolay has published research in multiple well-known venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
  • IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
  • AIP conference proceedings
  • Polymers
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

The scientist has collaborated with several co-authors, often working closely with:

  • Christophe Ballif
  • Christophe Allebé
  • Juan J. Díaz León
  • Andrea Ingenito
  • Gabriel Christmann

Recent publications reflect a focus on materials and applications in photovoltaics and polymers. Some notable papers include:

  • Optimization of photovoltaic panel tilt angle for short periods of time or multiple reorientations (2023), published in Energy Conversion and Management X
  • Thermal Analysis of Parylene Thin Films for Barrier Layer Applications (2022), published in Polymers
  • Palliating the efficiency loss due to shunting in perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells through modifying the resistive properties of the recombination junction (2021), published in Sustainable Energy & Fuels
  • Understanding and Mitigating the Degradation of Perovskite Solar Cells Based on a Nickel Oxide Hole Transport Material during Damp Heat Testing (2023), published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Localisation of front side passivating contacts for direct metallisation of high-efficiency c-Si solar cells (2021), published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Their work spans areas such as semiconductor materials and interfaces, efficiencies in solar cells, and thin-film technologies, contributing to advancements in renewable energy and photovoltaic systems.

Best Publications

  • Fully textured monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with 25.2% power conversion efficiency.

    Florent Sahli;Jérémie Werner;Brett A. Kamino;Matthias Bräuninger

  • 22.5% efficient silicon heterojunction solar cell with molybdenum oxide hole collector

    Jonas Geissbühler;Jérémie Werner;Silvia Martin de Nicolas;Loris Barraud

  • Organic-inorganic halide perovskite/crystalline silicon four-terminal tandem solar cells

    Philipp Löper;Soo-Jin Moon;Sílvia Martín de Nicolas;Bjoern Niesen

  • Efficient Near-Infrared-Transparent Perovskite Solar Cells Enabling Direct Comparison of 4-Terminal and Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Cells

    Jérémie Werner;Loris Barraud;Arnaud Walter;Matthias Bräuninger

  • Current status of AlInN layers lattice-matched to GaN for photonics and electronics

    R. Butte;J.-F. Carlin;E. Feltin;M. Gonschorek

  • Sputtered rear electrode with broadband transparency for perovskite solar cells

    Jérémie Werner;Guy Dubuis;Arnaud Walter;Philipp Löper

  • Improved Optics in Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells with a Nanocrystalline Silicon Recombination Junction

    Florent Sahli;Brett A. Kamino;Jérémie Werner;Matthias Bräuninger

  • I2 vapor-induced degradation of formamidinium lead iodide based perovskite solar cells under heat–light soaking conditions

    Fan Fu;Fan Fu;Stefano Pisoni;Quentin Jeangros;Jordi Sastre-Pellicer

  • Polycrystalline ZnO: B grown by LPCVD as TCO for thin film silicon solar cells

    Sylvie Faÿ;Jérôme Steinhauser;Sylvain Nicolay;Christophe Ballif

  • Progresses in III‐Nitride Distributed Bragg Reflectors and Microcavities Using AlInN/GaN Materials

    Jean‐François Carlin;Christoph Zellweger;Julien Dorsaz;Sylvain Nicolay

  • Multiscale transparent electrode architecture for efficient light management and carrier collection in solar cells

    Mathieu Boccard;Corsin Battaglia;Simon Hänni;Karin Söderström

  • Zinc tin oxide as high-temperature stable recombination layer for mesoscopic perovskite/silicon monolithic tandem solar cells

    Jérémie Werner;Arnaud Walter;Esteban Rucavado;Soo Jin Moon

  • Laser-Scribing Patterning for the Production of Organometallic Halide Perovskite Solar Modules

    Soo-Jin Moon;Jun-Ho Yum;Linus Lofgren;Arnaud Walter

  • Instability of p–i–n perovskite solar cells under reverse bias

    Ricardo Razera;Ricardo Razera;Daniel Jacobs;Fan Fu;Peter Fiala

  • Geometric light trapping for high efficiency thin film silicon solar cells

    Jordi Escarré;Karin Söderström;Matthieu Despeisse;Sylvain Nicolay

  • Complex Refractive Indices of Cesium–Formamidinium-Based Mixed-Halide Perovskites with Optical Band Gaps from 1.5 to 1.8 eV

    Jérémie Werner;Gizem Nogay;Florent Sahli;Terry Chien-Jen Yang

  • Midinfrared intersubband absorption in lattice-matched AlInN/GaN multiple quantum wells

    S. Nicolay;J.-F. Carlin;E. Feltin;R. Butté

  • Simple processing of back-contacted silicon heterojunction solar cells using selective-area crystalline growth

    Andrea Tomasi;Bertrand Paviet-Salomon;Quentin Jeangros;Quentin Jeangros;Jan Haschke

  • Perovskite/Perovskite/Silicon Monolithic Triple-Junction Solar Cells with a Fully Textured Design

    Jérémie Werner;Florent Sahli;Fan Fu;Juan J. Diaz Leon

  • Low-Temperature Screen-Printed Metallization for the Scale-Up of Two-Terminal Perovskite–Silicon Tandems

    Brett A. Kamino;Bertrand Paviet-Salomon;Soo-Jin Moon;Nicolas Badel

  • Parasitic Absorption Reduction in Metal Oxide-Based Transparent Electrodes: Application in Perovskite Solar Cells

    Jérémie Werner;Jonas Geissbühler;Ali Dabirian;Sylvain Nicolay

  • Indium surfactant effect on AlN/GaN heterostructures grown by metal-organic vapor-phase epitaxy : Applications to intersubband transitions

    S. Nicolay;E. Feltin;J.-F. Carlin;M. Mosca

Frequent Co-Authors

Christophe Ballif
Christophe Ballif École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Matthieu Despeisse
Matthieu Despeisse Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland)
Stefaan De Wolf
Stefaan De Wolf King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Nicolas Grandjean
Nicolas Grandjean École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Corsin Battaglia
Corsin Battaglia Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Franz-Josef Haug
Franz-Josef Haug École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Maria Tchernycheva
Maria Tchernycheva University of Paris-Saclay
Martyn E. Pemble
Martyn E. Pemble Tyndall National Institute
Mohammad Afzaal
Mohammad Afzaal Higher Colleges of Technology
Jun-Ho Yum
Jun-Ho Yum École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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