Recent Progress and Challenges in Controlling Secondary Phases in Kesterite CZT (S/Se) Thin Films: A Critical Review

MY Zaki, A Velea - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
Kesterite-based copper zinc tin sulfide (CZTS) and copper zinc tin selenide (CZTSe) thin
films have attracted considerable attention as promising materials for sustainable and cost …

MoS2 thin film hetero-interface as effective back surface field in CZTS-based solar cells

MS Islam, C Doroody, TS Kiong, KS Rahman… - Materials Science in …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this review article, we explore the insertion possibility of molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2)
thin-film heterostructures into copper, zinc, and tin sulfide (CZTS) based thin film solar cells …

Hydrothermal growth of Sb2S3 thin films on molybdenum for solar cell applications: Effect of post-deposition annealing

PS Pawar, R Nandi, KRE Neerugatti, JY Cho… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The binary chalcogenide material antimony sulfide (Sb 2 S 3) has attracted significant
attention as a potential absorber material for photovoltaics (PVs) owing to its suitable …

Canfieldite Ag8SnS6 nanoparticles with high light absorption coefficient and quantum yield

JA Adekoya, MD Khan, S Mlowe… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Canfieldite Ag 8 SnS 6 (STS) nanocubes were prepared by the solution
decomposition of precursors using heat-up and hot injection protocols employing …

Enhancement of kesterite solar cells using a carbon nanotube as a back surface field layer

L Et-taya, A El Khalfi, K Ridani, A El Boukili… - Journal of Physics and …, 2025 - Elsevier
We investigated and optimized a new design structure for CZTSSe thin film solar cells,
incorporating a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) as the back surface field layer …

[HTML][HTML] Single-stage fabrication of buffer and window layers of CIGS thin-film solar cells using pulsed laser deposition

E Kyriakides, C Nicolaou, PS Ioannou, P Papagiorgis… - Solar Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic devices based on Cu (In, Ga) Se 2 (CIGS) are showing great promise as
sources of clean and renewable energy production in the global efforts to reverse climate …

Modeling and simulation of CZTS thin-film solar cell for efficiency enhancement

R Paul, S Vallisree, TR Lenka, FA Talukdar - Journal of Electronic …, 2022 - Springer
CZTS solar cells have been utilized as a replacement for CIGS and CdTe solar cells in thin-
film technology. With the better absorption coefficient of this material, it has achieved …

Synthesis and characterization of Vanadium (V)-doped CZTS thin films by chemical spray pyrolysis method for solar cell applications

CT Illiyas, KC Preetha - Journal of Materials Science: Materials in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Vanadium (V+ 5)-doped Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films were synthesized by
chemical spray pyrolysis technique. Structural properties were studied by X-ray …

On the thermodynamic of Cu-Zn disorder formation and electronic structure changes of alkaline-earth M-doped kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 (M= Be, Mg, Ca)

N Abdillah, NR Ayukaryana, MK Agusta… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2024 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT The kesterite Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (ks-CZTS) is a promising beyond-Si low-cost
photovoltaic absorber material. However, the inherent low open-circuit voltage due to cation …

Understanding performance limitation of cucdsns as photoactive layer: Physics of defect states and recombination mechanisms

PGN Kumar, P Chandrasekar, S Routray… - IEEE Sensors …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is a plethora of thin-film photovoltaic materials like copper indium gallium sulfur
(CIGS), CIGS-Selenium (CIGSSe), Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS),(CZTSSe), and so on that are …