[HTML][HTML] Review of degradation and failure phenomena in photovoltaic modules

M Aghaei, A Fairbrother, A Gok, S Ahmad… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The degradation of photovoltaic (PV) systems is one of the key factors to address in order to
reduce the cost of the electricity produced by increasing the operational lifetime of PV …

Flexible CIGS, CdTe and a-Si: H based thin film solar cells: A review

J Ramanujam, DM Bishop, TK Todorov… - Progress in Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Flexible thin film solar cells such as CIGS, CdTe, and a-Si: H have received worldwide
attention. Until now, Si solar cells dominate the photovoltaic market. Its production cost is a …

Wide band gap chalcogenide semiconductors

R Woods-Robinson, Y Han, H Zhang, T Ablekim… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Wide band gap semiconductors are essential for today's electronic devices and energy
applications because of their high optical transparency, controllable carrier concentration …

Record Efficiency for Thin-Film Polycrystalline Solar Cells Up to 22.9% Achieved by Cs-Treated Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2

T Kato, JL Wu, Y Hirai, H Sugimoto… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An efficiency of 22.9% for 1-cm 2-sized Cu (In, Ga)(Se, S) 2 solar cells has been
independently verified, establishing a record device efficiency for thin-film polycrystalline …

Applications of machine learning in perovskite materials

Z Wang, M Yang, X Xie, C Yu, Q Jiang… - … Composites and Hybrid …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Machine learning (ML) offers the opportunities to discover certain unique properties
for typical material. Taking perovskite materials as an example, this review summarizes the …

Emerging inorganic compound thin film photovoltaic materials: Progress, challenges and strategies

F Liu, Q Zeng, J Li, X Hao, A Ho-Baillie, J Tang… - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
The efficient conversion of solar energy to electricity for human utilization heavily relies on
the development of solar cells. Nowadays, a variety of high-performance solar cells are …

Cu (In, Ga)(Se, S) 2 solar cell research in Solar Frontier: Progress and current status

T Kato - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
As the largest manufacturer of Cu (In, Ga)(Se, S) 2 (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules
with more than 1 GW/year production volume, Solar Frontier KK has continuously improved …

Flexible Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 solar cells with over 10% efficiency and methods of enlarging the cell area

KJ Yang, S Kim, SY Kim, K Ahn, DH Son… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
For kesterite copper zinc tin sulfide/selenide (CZTSSe) solar cells to enter the market, in
addition to efficiency improvements, the technological capability to produce flexible and …

Efficiency limits of concentrating spectral-splitting hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) solar collectors and systems

G Huang, K Wang, CN Markides - Light: Science & Applications, 2021 - nature.com
Spectral splitting is an approach to the design of hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) collectors
that promises significant performance benefits. However, the ultimate efficiency limits …

3D/2D passivation as a secret to success for polycrystalline thin-film solar cells

DL McGott, CP Muzzillo, CL Perkins, JJ Berry, K Zhu… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Polycrystalline photovoltaic materials offer low costs and good scalability; however, grain
boundaries in these materials are extended defects, which can drastically increase carrier …