Cadmium telluride (CdTe)-based cells have emerged as the leading commercialized thin
film photovoltaic technology and has intrinsically better temperature coefficients, energy …

Because of high efficiencies and low-cost fabrication, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have
drawn great attention. Although an impressive power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 26 …

Multi-junction (tandem) solar cells (TSCs) consisting of multiple light absorbers with
considerably different band gaps show great potential in breaking the Shockley–Queisser (S …

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 …

Already, several technologies of polycrystalline thin‐film photovoltaic materials have
achieved certified record small‐cell power conversion efficiencies exceeding 22%. They are …

Bandgap gradient is a proven approach for improving the open-circuit voltages (VOCs) in
Cu (In, Ga) Se2 and Cu (Zn, Sn) Se2 thin-film solar cells, but has not been realized in Cd …

Massive expansions in the global population and the global digitalization throughout the
industrial revolution are causing energy security issues that are no longer environmentally …

CdTe thin film solar cell, as an outstanding representative of the second-generation solar
cells, has been produced and applied on a large scale. However, due to the low …

CdTe-based solar cells exhibiting 19% power conversion efficiency were produced using
widely available thermal evaporation deposition of the absorber layers on SnO2-coated …

The origin of voltage deficits in polycrystalline cadmium selenide telluride (CdSeTe) solar
cells is unclear. Here, we present a comprehensive voltage loss analysis performed on state …