Defect engineering in multinary earth‐abundant chalcogenide photovoltaic materials

D Shin, B Saparov, DB Mitzi - Advanced Energy Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Application of zinc‐blende‐related chalcogenide absorbers such as CdTe and Cu (In, Ga)
Se2 (CIGSe) has enabled remarkable advancement in laboratory‐and commercial‐scale …

The current status and future prospects of kesterite solar cells: a brief review

X Liu, Y Feng, H Cui, F Liu, X Hao… - Progress in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Kesterite‐based solar cells are attracting considerable attention in recent years, owing to the
reduced toxicity and greater abundance of their constituent elements. In this brief review, we …

Is the Cu/Zn disorder the main culprit for the voltage deficit in kesterite solar cells?

S Bourdais, C Choné, B Delatouche… - Advanced Energy …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Photovoltaic thin film solar cells based on kesterite Cu2ZnSn (Sx, Se1–x) 4 compounds
(CZTSSe) have reached> 12% sunlight‐to‐electricity conversion efficiency. This is still far …

Point defects, compositional fluctuations, and secondary phases in non-stoichiometric kesterites

S Schorr, G Gurieva, M Guc… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The efficiency of kesterite-based solar cells is limited by various non-ideal recombination
paths, amongst others by a high density of defect states and by the presence of binary or …

[HTML][HTML] A low-temperature order-disorder transition in Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films

JJS Scragg, L Choubrac, A Lafond, T Ericson… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS) is an interesting material for sustainable photovoltaics, but efficiencies
are limited by the low open-circuit voltage. A possible cause of this is disorder among the Cu …

Multiwavelength excitation Raman scattering study of polycrystalline kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films

M Dimitrievska, A Fairbrother, X Fontané… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
This work presents a complete analysis of all Raman active modes of Cu 2 ZnSnS 4
measuring with six different excitation wavelengths from near infrared to ultraviolet …

[图书][B] Earth-abundant materials for solar cells: Cu2-II-IV-VI4 semiconductors

S Adachi - 2015 - books.google.com
Systematically describes the physical and materials properties of copper-based quaternary
chalcogenide semiconductor materials, enabling their potential for photovoltaic device …

Cu2ZnSnS4 photovoltaic cell with improved efficiency fabricated by high‐temperature annealing after CdS buffer‐layer deposition

S Tajima, M Umehara, M Hasegawa… - Progress in …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
To improve the photovoltaic properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) cells, we investigated the
effect of both the thickness of the deposited CdS layers and the post‐annealing temperature …

Dependence of CZTS thin film properties and photovoltaic performance on heating rate and sulfurization time

MA Olgar, S Erkan, R Zan - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, effect of heating rate and sulfurization time on the properties of CZTS thin films
and their photovoltaic performances was investigated. CZTS layers were prepared by a two …

Solid-state NMR and Raman spectroscopy to address the local structure of defects and the tricky issue of the Cu/Zn disorder in Cu-poor, Zn-rich CZTS materials

M Paris, L Choubrac, A Lafond… - Inorganic …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The material Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTS) offers a promising indium-free alternative to Cu (In,
Ga) Se2 for the absorber layer in thin-film solar cells. It is known that the highest solar …