Abstract Bifacial Cu (In, Ga) Se2 (CIGS) solar cells are attractive for a range of applications,
but their low power conversion efficiency is a limitation. To improve their efficiency, the …

The rapidly developing perovskite solar cells (PSCs) provide a new and promising choice of
thin film solar cells due to their attractive attributes. Among the commercialized thin film solar …

In this work, different copper-based thin-film materials as a hole transport layer (HTL) are
introduced in Cu (In, Ga) Se 2 (CIGS) solar cells to limit the recombination rate at the back …

The vapor-transport deposition of SnS and SnSe can help achieve low-cost and scalable
photovoltaic devices. However, the performance of SnS-and SnSe-based solar cells is …

To achieve a high fill factor, a small diode factor close to 1 is essential. The optical diode
factor determined by photoluminescence is the diode factor from the neutral zone of the …

The copper indium gallium selenium (CIGS) thin film is widely acknowledged as the most
promising material for photovoltaic applications. Mainly due to appealing chemical and …

Point defects directly impact solar cell device performance by limiting the carrier lifetime. In
this work, density functional theory calculations are first used to determine the formation …

Voltage losses reduce the photovoltaic conversion efficiency of thin‐film solar cells and are
a primary efficiency limitation in Cu (In, Ga) Se2. Herein, voltage loss analysis of Cu (In, Ga) …

Small voids in the absorber layer of thin‐film solar cells are generally suspected to impair
photovoltaic performance. They have been studied on Cu (In, Ga) Se2 cells with …

Cu2 (In, Ga) Se2 thin-film solar cells with Zn (O, S) buffer layers have become the focus of
industries due to their favorable features, in particular, their high efficiency. However, the …