Armin Richter

5.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
90 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Armin Richter is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Armin Richter has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 40 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 20 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Armin Richter's work include Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (82 papers), Semiconductor materials and interfaces (39 papers) and Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (34 papers). Armin Richter is often cited by papers focused on Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (82 papers), Semiconductor materials and interfaces (39 papers) and Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (34 papers). Armin Richter collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and United Kingdom. Armin Richter's co-authors include Stefan W. Glunz, Martin Hermle, Jan Benick, Frank Feldmann, Jan Schmidt, Florian Werner, Andrés Cuevas, Andreas Fell, Ralph Müller and Christian Reichel and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Physical Review B.

In The Last Decade

Armin Richter

84 papers receiving 4.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Reassessment of the Limiting Efficiency for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

2013 799 citations Armin Richter, Martin Hermle et al. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics profile →
Improved quantitative description of Auger recombination in crystalline silicon

2012 734 citations Armin Richter, Stefan W. Glunz et al. profile →
n-Type Si solar cells with passivating electron contact: Identifying sources for efficiency limitations by wafer thickness and resistivity variation

2017 523 citations Armin Richter, Jan Benick et al. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells profile →
Design rules for high-efficiency both-sides-contacted silicon solar cells with balanced charge carrier transport and recombination losses

2021 332 citations Armin Richter, Ralph Müller et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Armin Richter Germany	30	4.4k	1.6k	1.2k	482	385	90	4.6k
Jan Benick Germany	38	5.0k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	468 1.0×	761 2.0×	149	5.2k
Robby Peibst Germany	35	4.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	307 0.6×	344 0.9×	155	4.5k
Antoine Descoeudres Switzerland	33	4.4k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	389 0.8×	718 1.9×	75	4.7k
Eiji Maruyama Japan	16	3.2k 0.7×	899 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	391 0.8×	430 1.1×	40	3.4k
Martin Bivour Germany	36	4.8k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	300 0.6×	321 0.8×	118	4.9k
Andreas Fell Germany	23	3.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	786 0.6×	368 0.8×	249 0.6×	125	3.3k
Ronald A. Sinton United States	27	3.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	946 0.8×	592 1.2×	305 0.8×	96	3.8k
C. M. Fetzer United States	22	2.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	612 0.5×	336 0.7×	518 1.3×	63	2.7k
G. Beaucarne Belgium	28	2.6k 0.6×	638 0.4×	1.3k 1.1×	234 0.5×	561 1.5×	160	2.9k
Rudolf Hezel Germany	29	2.9k 0.7×	857 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	320 0.7×	323 0.8×	110	3.1k

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Richter, Armin, Jana‐Isabelle Polzin, Jan Benick, et al.. (2025). Influence of Thermal Activation on Polysilicon Tunnel Junctions for Tunnel Oxide Passivating Contacts‐Based Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells. Solar RRL. 9(8).

Benick, Jan, Armin Richter, AnYao Liu, et al.. (2025). Hydrogenation characteristics of p-type poly-Si passivating contacts on textured surface for double-sided TOPCon devices. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 285. 113542–113542. 3 indexed citations

Richter, Armin, Jana‐Isabelle Polzin, Oussama Er‐raji, et al.. (2025). Fully‐Textured Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells Exceeding 30% Efficiency on Both Side Tunnel Oxide Passivating Contacted Bottom Cells. Solar RRL. 9(24).

Richter, Armin, Giuliano Vescovi, Florian Schindler, et al.. (2025). TOPCon Solar Cells Made of n‐Type and p‐Type Epitaxially Grown Silicon Wafers. Solar RRL. 9(16).

Niewelt, Tim, Friedemann D. Heinz, Armin Richter, et al.. (2024). Toward Highly Efficient Low‐Carbon Footprint Solar Cells: Impact of High‐Temperature Processing on Epitaxially Grown p‐Type Silicon Wafers. Solar RRL. 8(4). 4 indexed citations

Lohmüller, Elmar, et al.. (2023). Thermal laser separation and high-throughput layer deposition for edge passivation for TOPCon shingle solar cells. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 258. 112419–112419. 11 indexed citations

Lohmüller, Elmar, et al.. (2023). TOPCon shingle solar cells: Thermal laser separation and passivated edge technology. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 31(7). 729–737. 14 indexed citations

Reichel, Christian, et al.. (2023). Bias-voltage photoconductance and photoluminescence for the determination of silicon-dielectric interface properties in SiO2/Al2O3 stacks. Journal of Applied Physics. 134(7). 4 indexed citations

Richter, Armin, Jana‐Isabelle Polzin, Frank Feldmann, et al.. (2022). Simultaneous Boron Emitter Diffusion and Annealing of Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contacts Via Rapid Vapor-Phase Direct Doping. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 12(5). 1142–1148. 2 indexed citations

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Geipel, T., et al.. (2021). Post-Separation Processing for Silicon Heterojunction Half Solar Cells With Passivated Edges. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 11(6). 1343–1349. 20 indexed citations

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Glunz, Stefan W., Bernd Steinhauser, Jana‐Isabelle Polzin, et al.. (2021). Silicon‐based passivating contacts: The TOPCon route. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 31(4). 341–359. 82 indexed citations

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Niewelt, Tim, Bernd Steinhauser, Armin Richter, et al.. (2021). Reassessment of the intrinsic bulk recombination in crystalline silicon. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 235. 111467–111467. 97 indexed citations

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Steinhauser, Bernd, et al.. (2021). Extraordinarily High Minority Charge Carrier Lifetime Observed in Crystalline Silicon. Solar RRL. 5(11). 16 indexed citations

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Richter, Armin, et al.. (2020). Ultrathin Plasma Oxide for Passivation of Phosphorus-Diffused Silicon Solar Cell Emitters. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 10(5). 1226–1231. 3 indexed citations

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Schubert, Martin C., Florian Schindler, Jan Benick, et al.. (2020). The potential of cast silicon. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 219. 110789–110789. 20 indexed citations

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Steinhauser, Bernd, et al.. (2018). Rapid Vapor-Phase Direct Doping for High-Efficiency Solar Cells. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 8(6). 1421–1428. 6 indexed citations

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Glunz, Stefan W., Martin Bivour, Christoph Messmer, et al.. (2017). Passivating and Carrier-selective Contacts - Basic Requirements and Implementation. 2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC). 2064–2069. 24 indexed citations

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Richter, Armin, et al.. (2014). Study of Dielectric Layers for Bifacial n-type Silicon Solar Cells with Regard to Optical Properties, Surface Passivation Quality, and Contact Formation. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 4(2). 575–580. 6 indexed citations

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Richter, Armin, Jan Benick, Achim Kimmerle, Martin Hermle, & Stefan W. Glunz. (2014). Passivation of phosphorus diffused silicon surfaces with Al2O3: Influence of surface doping concentration and thermal activation treatments. Journal of Applied Physics. 116(24). 19 indexed citations

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Löper, Philipp, D. Pysch, Armin Richter, et al.. (2012). Analysis of the Temperature Dependence of the Open-Circuit Voltage. Energy Procedia. 27. 135–142. 58 indexed citations

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