CdTe-based thin film photovoltaics: Recent advances, current challenges and future prospects

MA Scarpulla, B McCandless, AB Phillips, Y Yan… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cadmium telluride (CdTe)-based cells have emerged as the leading commercialized thin
film photovoltaic technology and has intrinsically better temperature coefficients, energy …

CdTe-based thin film solar cells: past, present and future

A Romeo, E Artegiani - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
CdTe is a very robust and chemically stable material and for this reason its related solar cell
thin film photovoltaic technology is now the only thin film technology in the first 10 top …

Recent progress towards photovoltaics' circular economy

MKH Rabaia, C Semeraro, AG Olabi - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Massive expansions in the global population and the global digitalization throughout the
industrial revolution are causing energy security issues that are no longer environmentally …

Review of technology specific degradation in crystalline silicon, cadmium telluride, copper indium gallium selenide, dye sensitised, organic and perovskite solar cells …

J Kettle, M Aghaei, S Ahmad… - Progress in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A comprehensive understanding of failure modes of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules is key
to extending their operational lifetime in the field. In this review, first, specific failure modes …

CdTe solar cells: technology, operation and reliability

M Barbato, E Artegiani, M Bertoncello… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last 20 years, the technological improvements of CdTe solar cell have been
impressive, and today the performance of these cells is comparable with that of silicon cells …

Sb2S3 Thin-Film Solar Cells Fabricated from an Antimony Ethyl Xanthate Based Precursor in Air

JS Eensalu, S Mandati, CH Don, H Finch… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The rapidly expanding demand for photovoltaics (PVs) requires stable, quick, and easy to
manufacture solar cells based on socioeconomically and ecologically viable earth-abundant …

High-efficiency CdTe-based thin-film solar cells with unltrathin CdS: O window layer and processes with post annealing

A Hu, J Zhou, P Zhong, X Qin, M Zhang, Y Jiang, X Wu… - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The thickness of the CdS: O window layer plays an important role in CdTe-based thin-film
solar cell performance. Normally with thinner CdS: O layer, the cells' short wavelength …

The nanoscale distribution of copper and its influence on charge collection in CdTe solar cells

T Walker, ME Stuckelberger, T Nietzold… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
For decades, Cu has been the primary dopant in CdTe photovoltaic absorbers. Typically, Cu
acceptor concentrations in these devices are on the order of 1× 10 14 cm− 3, which has …

Comparative study of As and Cu doping stability in CdSeTe absorbers

D Krasikov, D Guo, S Demtsu, I Sankin - Solar Energy Materials and Solar …, 2021 - Elsevier
The reasons behind the long-term degradation of Cu-doped CdTe thin-film solar cells have
been a topic of discussion for almost two decades. Yet the underlying mechanisms of such …

What Can Solar Cells Learn from ?

CH Don, TP Shalvey, JD Major - PRX Energy, 2023 - APS
This article provides an examination of the long-term potential of antimony selenide (Sb 2 Se
3) as a leading photovoltaic absorber by considering lessons learned from the …