Robby Peibst

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
155 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Robby Peibst is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Robby Peibst has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 67 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 31 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Robby Peibst's work include Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (111 papers), Semiconductor materials and interfaces (65 papers) and Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (59 papers). Robby Peibst is often cited by papers focused on Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (111 papers), Semiconductor materials and interfaces (65 papers) and Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (59 papers). Robby Peibst collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Robby Peibst's co-authors include Rolf Brendel, Jan Krügener, Michael Rienäcker, Felix Haase, Tobias Wietler, Sören Schäfer, Jan Schmidt, Agnes Merkle, Christina Hollemann and Udo Römer and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Energy & Environmental Science and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Robby Peibst

151 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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

2018 495 citations Felix Haase, Christina Hollemann et al. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells profile →
Surface passivation of crystalline silicon solar cells: Present and future

2018 337 citations Jan Schmidt, Robby Peibst et al. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robby Peibst Germany	35	4.3k	1.9k	1.1k	344	307	155	4.5k
Jan Benick Germany	38	5.0k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	761 2.2×	468 1.5×	149	5.2k
G. Beaucarne Belgium	28	2.6k 0.6×	638 0.3×	1.3k 1.2×	561 1.6×	234 0.8×	160	2.9k
Martin Bivour Germany	36	4.8k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.3×	321 0.9×	300 1.0×	118	4.9k
Dengyuan Song China	27	2.0k 0.5×	429 0.2×	1.9k 1.8×	739 2.1×	177 0.6×	80	2.5k
Xixiang Xu China	25	1.9k 0.4×	305 0.2×	1.0k 0.9×	149 0.4×	201 0.7×	102	2.0k
Thorsten Dullweber Germany	28	2.3k 0.5×	809 0.4×	851 0.8×	143 0.4×	357 1.2×	82	2.4k
K. Edmondson United States	17	1.7k 0.4×	708 0.4×	508 0.5×	385 1.1×	315 1.0×	38	2.0k
Yukinori Kuwano Japan	21	2.0k 0.5×	282 0.1×	1.3k 1.2×	169 0.5×	156 0.5×	124	2.2k
Marcel Placidi Spain	32	3.5k 0.8×	708 0.4×	3.1k 2.8×	118 0.3×	95 0.3×	123	3.8k
Ivan Perez‐Würfl Australia	19	1.0k 0.2×	340 0.2×	879 0.8×	608 1.8×	163 0.5×	98	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robby Peibst

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Rienäcker, Michael, Tonghan Zhao, Hang Hu, et al.. (2025). Charge carrier management for highly efficient perovskite/Si tandem solar cells with poly-Si based passivating contacts. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(11). 5599–5609. 4 indexed citations

Plagwitz, Heiko, et al.. (2025). Transformation of Lead Iodide (Cs_0.05PbI_2.05) during Annealing and Its Influence on Perovskite Formation and Solar Cells. Solar RRL. 9(10).

Pieters, Bart E., et al.. (2025). Performance Analysis of an Onboard PV System on a Demonstrator Light Commercial Vehicle in Hannover, Germany. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 33(5). 616–627. 1 indexed citations

Eperon, Giles E., Alessandro Virtuani, Quentin Jeangros, et al.. (2024). Stability and reliability of perovskite containing solar cells and modules: degradation mechanisms and mitigation strategies. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(20). 7566–7599. 38 indexed citations

Katkus, Tomas, Soon Hock Ng, Haoran Mu, et al.. (2024). Bessel‐Beam Direct Write of the Etch Mask in a Nano‐Film of Alumina for High‐Efficiency Si Solar Cells. Advanced Engineering Materials. 26(21). 3 indexed citations

Hollemann, Christina, et al.. (2023). Assessing the stability of p+ and n+ polysilicon passivating contacts with various capping layers on p-type wafers. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 253. 112245–112245. 7 indexed citations

Min, Byungsul, et al.. (2022). Sputtered Phosphorus‐Doped poly‐Si on Oxide Contacts for Screen‐Printed Si Solar Cells. Solar RRL. 6(9). 6 indexed citations

Haase, Felix, Christina Hollemann, Karsten Bothe, et al.. (2022). Design of Large Poly‐Si on Oxide Interdigitated Back Contact (POLO IBC) Silicon Solar Cells with Local Al–p⁺Contacts in the Constraints of Measurement and Module Integration. Solar RRL. 6(11). 5 indexed citations

Hollemann, Christina, Michael Rienäcker, Anastasia Soeriyadi, et al.. (2021). Firing stability of tube furnace‐annealed n‐type poly‐Si on oxide junctions. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 30(1). 49–64. 18 indexed citations

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Hollemann, Christina, Nils Folchert, Steven P. Harvey, et al.. (2021). Changes in hydrogen concentration and defect state density at the poly-Si/SiOx/c-Si interface due to firing. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 231. 111297–111297. 22 indexed citations

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VanSant, Kaitlyn T., Emily L. Warren, Jerónimo Buencuerpo, et al.. (2021). Optimization of four terminal rear heterojunction GaAs on Si interdigitated back contact tandem solar cells. Applied Physics Letters. 118(18). 15 indexed citations

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Schäfer, Sören, Felix Haase, Verena Mertens, et al.. (2021). Simulation-based roadmap for the integration of poly-silicon on oxide contacts into screen-printed crystalline silicon solar cells. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 996–996. 40 indexed citations

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Gharibzadeh, Saba, Ihteaz M. Hossain, Paul Faßl, et al.. (2020). 2D/3D Heterostructure for Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells with Engineered Bandgap Enables Efficiencies Exceeding 25% in Four‐Terminal Tandems with Silicon and CIGS. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(19). 144 indexed citations

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Folchert, Nils, Robby Peibst, & Rolf Brendel. (2020). Modeling recombination and contact resistance of poly‐Si junctions. Progress in Photovoltaics Research and Applications. 28(12). 1289–1307. 21 indexed citations

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Winter, Michael, Stefan Bordihn, Robby Peibst, Rolf Brendel, & Jan Schmidt. (2020). Degradation and Regeneration of n ⁺-Doped Poly-Si Surface Passivation on p-Type and n-Type Cz-Si Under Illumination and Dark Annealing. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 10(2). 423–430. 21 indexed citations

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Hollemann, Christina, Felix Haase, Michael Rienäcker, et al.. (2020). Separating the two polarities of the POLO contacts of an 26.1%-efficient IBC solar cell. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 658–658. 66 indexed citations

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Hossain, Ihteaz M., Yidenekachew J. Donie, Raphael Schmager, et al.. (2020). Nanostructured front electrodes for perovskite/c-Si tandem photovoltaics. Optics Express. 28(6). 8878–8878. 11 indexed citations

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Peibst, Robby, Michael Rienäcker, Byungsul Min, et al.. (2018). From PERC to Tandem: POLO- and p⁺/n⁺ Poly-Si Tunneling Junction as Interface Between Bottom and Top Cell. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 9(1). 49–54. 28 indexed citations

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Wietler, Tobias, Byungsul Min, Sina Reiter, et al.. (2018). High Temperature Annealing of ZnO:Al on Passivating POLO Junctions: Impact on Transparency, Conductivity, Junction Passivation, and Interface Stability. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 9(1). 89–96. 19 indexed citations

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Schnabel, Manuel, Michael Rienäcker, Emily L. Warren, et al.. (2018). Equivalent Performance in Three-Terminal and Four-Terminal Tandem Solar Cells. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 8(6). 1584–1589. 34 indexed citations

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