Recent publications

PhD dissertations

J.H. Selj, Porous silicon for light management in silicon solar cells, 2011

K. Mangersnes, Back-contacted back-junction silicon solar cells, 2011

D. N. Wright, Optical and passivating properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon nitride deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition for application on silicon solar cells, 2008

A. Bentzen, Phosphorus diffusion and gettering in silicon solar cells, 2006

For publications in refereed journals, click here.

Publications in conference proceedings

25th European PVSEC, Valencia, Spain, 2010

A. Holt, A. Thøgersen, C. Rohr, J.–I. Bye, Ø. Nordseth, S. A. Jensen, L. Norheim and Ø. Nielsen, Etch rates in alkaline solutions of mono-crystalline silicon wafers produced by diamond wire sawing, Proceedings of the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Valencia, Spain (2010)

R. Søndenå, A. Holt and A.-K. Soiland, Light induced degradation in monocrystalline silicon wafers made from the metallurgical route, Proceedings of the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Valencia, Spain (2010)

35th IEEE PVSC, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2010

A. Holt, A. Thøgersen, C. Rohr, J.–I. Bye, G. Helgesen, Ø. Nordseth, S.A. Jensen, L. Norheim and Ø. Nielsen, Surface structure of mono-crystalline silicon wafers produced by diamond wire sawing and by standard slurry sawing before and after etching in alkaline solutions, Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA (2010)

M. Nawaz, E. S. Marstein and A. Holt, Design analysis of ZnO/cSi heterojunction solar cell, Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA (2010)

E. Monakhov, M. Syre, C.K. Tang, J. Mayandi, B. Olaisen, R. Søndenå, B.G. Svensson and A. Holt, Deep level transient spectroscopy studies of electrically active centers in solar-grade Si, Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA (2010)

E-MRS Spring Meeting, San Fransisco, USA, 2010

K. Mangersnes and S.E. Foss, A thermodynamic model for the laser fluence ablation threshold of PECVD SiO2 on thin a-Si:H films deposited on crystalline silicon, E-MRS 2010 Spring Meeting, San Fransisco, USA (2010)

24th European PVSEC, Hamburg, Germany, 2009

J. Mayandi, E. S. Marstein, M. Syre, B. R. Olaisen, B. Thomassen, A. Holt, L. Vines, The effect of P concentration on gettering of multicrystalline Si wafers, Proceedings of the 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Hamburg, Germany (2009)

J. Gjessing, E. S. Marstein, A. Sudbø, Modelling of light trapping in thin silicon solar cells with back-side dielectric diffraction grating, Proceedings of the 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Hamburg, Germany (2009)

M. H. Rein, J. Mayandi, B. R. Olaisen, A. Holt, E. Monakhov, Annealing effect on ITO films sputtered with argon, oxygen and hydrogen, Proceedings of the 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Hamburg, Germany (2009)

M. H. Rein, J. Mayandi, B. R. Olaisen, A. Holt, E. Monakhov, Hydrogenated ITO and its properties, Proceedings of the 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Hamburg, Germany (2009)

K. Mangersnes, S. E. Foss, Laser ablation of PECVD oxide for structuring of back-junction interdigitated silicon solar cells, Proceedings of the 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Hamburg, Germany (2009)

B. R. Olaisen, M. Edoff, A. Holt, CIGS solar cells with screen-printed contacts, Proceedings of the 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Hamburg, Germany (2009)

18th International PVSEC, Kolkata, India 2009

Jeyanthinath Mayandi, Erik S. Marstein, Marie Syre, Arve Holt and Birger R. Olaisen, Phosphorous gettering limitations in multicrystalline silicon wafers, Proceedings of the 18th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference, Kolkata, India (2009) In press

23rd European PVSEC, Valencia, Spain, 2008

Arve Holt, Marika Edoff, Peter Lund, Hanne Lauritzen, Turid W. Reenaas, Enn Mellikov, Vladimir M. Lantratov, Nordic Centre of Excellence in Photovoltaics (NCoE in PV), Proceedings of the 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Valencia, Spain (2008)

E-MRS Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France, 2008

S. Karazhanov, A. Davletova and A. Ulyashin, First-principles study of band structure of strained Silicon, E-MRS 2008 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France (2008)

33rd IEEE PVSC, San Diego, California, USA, 2008

Arve Holt, Birger Retterstøl Olaisen, Erik Enebakk and Anne-Karin Soiland, Effect of annealing of multi crystalline edge wafers and Cz mono crystalline wafers based on metallurgical silicon, Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, San Diego, CA, USA (2008)

Norwegian Electro-Optics Meeting 2008

J. Selj, E.S. Marstein, S.E. Foss, T. Finstad, Applications of porous silicon for light trapping in very thin silicon solar cells, Norwegian Electro-Optics Meeting (2008)

TMCS, Manchester, England, 2008

S. Karazhanov, P. Kroll, D.N. Wright, A. Ulyashin and A. Holt, Ab initio study of amorphous silicon nitride, Workshop on Theory, Modelling and Computational Methods for Semiconductor Materials and Nanostructures, Manchester, England (2008)

22nd European PVSEC, Milano, Italy, 2007

Arve Holt, Erik Enebakk and Anne-Karin Soiland, Effect of impurities on the minority carrier lifetime of silicon made by the metallurgical route, Proceedings of the 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Milano, Italy (2007) 1155-1159

D.N. Wright, E.S. Marstein and A. Holt, Effect of annealing on PECVD silicon nitride films, Proceedings of the 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Milano, Italy (2007) 1651-1655

H. Nordmark, H. Nagaoyshi, K. Terashima, S. Nishimura, J.C. Walmsley, R. Holmestad, A. Ulyashin, Comparative analysis of surface texturing of silicon by hydrogen plasma treatments or hydrogen radicals generated by a tungsten hot filament, Proceedings of the 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Milano, Italy (2007) 1686-1689

A. Ulyashin, D.N. Wright, A. Bentzen, A. Suphellen, E. Marstein, A. Holt, Optical and passivation properties of double layer a-Si:H/SiNx anti-reflective coatings for silicon solar cells, Proceedings of the 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Milano, Italy (2007) 1690-1693

K. Mangersnes and S. E. Foss, Numerical optimization of a back-junction solar cell, Proceedings of the 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Milano, Italy (2007) 1701-1704

21th European PVSEC, Dresden, Germany, 2006

B. R. Olaisen, A. Holt and E. S. Marstein, Optimization of a firing furnace, Proceedings of the 21th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Dresden, Germany, (2006) 1083-1087

A. Bentzen, J.S. Christensen, B.G. Svensson, and A. Holt, Understanding phosphorus emitter diffusion in silicon solar cell processing, Proceedings of the 21th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Dresden, Germany, (2006) 1388-1391

D.N. Wright, E.V. Monakhov, E.S. Marstein, A.Yu. Kuznetsov, B.G. Svensson and A. Holt, The effect on surface passivation of the deposition power in plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposited silicon nitride, Proceedings of the 21th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Dresden, Germany, (2006) 842-845

R. Kvande, L. Arnberg, C. Martin, G. Rancoule, L. Dupuy, A. Holt, Effect of crucible purity and interface characteristics on multicrystalline silicon ingot quality, Proceedings of the 21th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Dresden, Germany, (2006) 1052-1056

D.N. Wright, A. Ulyashin, A. Bentzen, E.S. Marstein, A. Holt, Multi-layer TCO based anti-reflective coatings for silicon solar cells, Proceedings of the 21th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Dresden, Germany, (2006) 1211-1214

A. Ulyashin, B. Eidelman, G. Untila, A. Chebotareva, T. Kost, A. Suphellen, A. Bentzen, A. Holt, E. Sauar, Passivation of silicon surface by transparent conductive oxide containing layers, Proceedings of the 21th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Dresden, Germany, (2006) 1235-1238

S. E. Foss, B. R. Olaisen, E. S. Marstein and A. Holt, A new 2.5D distributed spice model of solar cells, Proceedings of the 21th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Dresden, Germany, (2006) 430-434

F. Tyholdt, A. Ulyashin, M. Mottern, A.T.J. van Helvoort, H. Raeder, ITO films for solar cells made by chemical solution deposition, Proceedings of the 21th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Dresden, Germany, (2006) 311-314

A. Ulyashin, H. Nordmark, J.C. Walmsley, B. Tøtdal, R. Holmestad, Influence of an intensive hydrogenation on structural and point defect formation in silicon, Proceedings of the 21th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Dresden, Germany, (2006) 1448-1451

A.G. Ulyashin, J.S. Christensen, B.G. Svensson, A. Bentzen, A. Suphellen, E.S. Marstein, A. Holt, R. Kogler, W. Skorupa, Introduction of hydrogen into bulk silicon during plasma treatments using a stop layer formed by ion implantation, Proceedings of the 21th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Dresden, Germany, (2006) 1467-1470

WCPEC-4, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, 2006

E.S. Marstein, Ø. Haugen, A.G. Ulyashin, V. Yurchenko, I.O. Omolo, T.H. Johansen and A. Holt, Shunt detection and characterization with fluorescent microthermal imaging, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, (2006) In press

15th International PVSEC, Shanghai, China, 2005

Birger Retterstøl Olaisen, Sara Woldegiorgis, Per-Oskar Westin, Marika Edoff, Lars Stolt, Arve Holt, and Erik Stensrud Marstein, CIGS mini-modules with screen-printed front contacts, Technical Digest of the 15th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference, (2005) 612-613.

Daniel Nilsen Wright, Erik Stensrud Marstein, and Arve Holt, Effect of varying the microwave power in SiN PECVD deposition on the performance of silicon solar cells, Technical Digest of the 15th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference, (2005) 126-127.

Andreas Bentzen, Harsharn Tatghar, Julia Barthez, and Arve Holt, High trap densities in regions of reduced lifetime in multicrystalline silicon blocks, Technical Digest of the 15th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference, (2005) 879-880.

Andreas Bentzen, Alexander Ulyashin, Aina Suphellen, Erik Sauar, Dieter Grambole, Daniel Nilsen Wright, Erik Stensrud Marstein, Bengt Gunnar Svensson, and Arve Holt, Surface passivation of silicon solar cells by amorphous silicon/silicon nitride dual layers, Technical Digest of the 15th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference, (2005) 316-317.

20th European PVSEC, Barcelona, Spain, 2005

Arve Holt, Lars Stolt, Peter Lund, Hanne Lauritzen, and Gaute Stokkan, Nordic PV - A Nordic Scientific Project on Solar Electricity, Proceedings of the 20th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, (2005) 3115-3118.

A.G. Ulyashin, B. Eidelman, G. Untila, A. Chebotareva, T. Kost, B. R. Olaisen, E.S. Marstein, A. Holt, A.Yu. Kuznetsov, B.G. Svensson, Comparative analysis of low-temperature contacts to ITO layer as a transparent electrode for Si based solar cells, Proceedings of the 20th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, (2005) 1263-1266

Erik Stensrud Marstein, Otto Lohne, Espen Olsen, Erik Sauar, Timothy C. Lommasson, Ragnar Tronstad, and Alexander Ulyashin, Crystalline silicon solar cell research in Norway, Proceedings of the 20th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, (2005) 1032-1035.

31st IEEE PVSEC, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2005

Andreas Bentzen, Harsharn Tathgar, Radovan Kopecek, Ron Sinton, and Arve Holt, Recombination lifetime and trap density variations in multicrystalline silicon wafers through the block, Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, (2005) 1074-1077.

Andreas Bentzen and Arve Holt , Correspondence between sheet resistance and emitter profile of phoshorus diffused emitters from a spray-on dopant, Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, (2005) 1153-1156.

Erik Stensrud Marstein, Hans Jørgen Solheim, Daniel Nilsen Wright, and Arve Holt, Acidic texturing of multicrystalline silicon wafers, Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, (2005) 1309-1312.

Birger Retterstøl Olaisen, Arve Holt, Erik Stensrud Marstein, Erik Sauar, Aziz Shaikh, Kristina McVicker, Jalal Salami, Hector Miranda, and Steve Seongil Kim, Hot-melt screen-printing of front contacts on crystalline silicon solar cells, Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, (2005) 1084-1087.

Daniel Nilsen Wright, Erik Stensrud Marstein, and Arve Holt, Double layer anti-reflective coatings for silicon solar cells, Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, (2005) 1237-1240.

19th European PVSEC, Paris, France, 2004

Andreas Bentzen, Erik Stensrud Marstein, Radovan Kopecek, and Arve Holt, Phosphorus diffusion and gettering in multi-crystalline silicon solar cell processing, Proceedings of the 19th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, (2004) 935-938.

14th International PVSEC, Bangkok, Thailand, 2004

Andreas Bentzen, Bengt Gunnar Svensson, and Arve Holt, Enhanced phosphorus diffusion at microstructural defects in multicrystalline silicon, Technical Digest of the 14th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference, (2004) 405-406.