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 …

Applications of phosphorene and black phosphorus in energy conversion and storage devices

J Pang, A Bachmatiuk, Y Yin… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The successful isolation of phosphorene (atomic layer thick black phosphorus) in 2014 has
currently aroused the interest of 2D material researchers. In this review, first, the …

Thin-film Sb2Se3 photovoltaics with oriented one-dimensional ribbons and benign grain boundaries

Y Zhou, L Wang, S Chen, S Qin, X Liu, J Chen… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Solar cells based on inorganic absorbers, such as Si, GaAs, CdTe and Cu (In, Ga) Se2,
permit a high device efficiency and stability. The crystals' three-dimensional structure means …

Point defect engineering in thin-film solar cells

JS Park, S Kim, Z Xie, A Walsh - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Control of defect processes in photovoltaic materials is essential for realizing high-efficiency
solar cells and related optoelectronic devices. Native defects and extrinsic dopants tune the …

Exceeding 20% efficiency with in situ group V doping in polycrystalline CdTe solar cells

WK Metzger, S Grover, D Lu, E Colegrove, J Moseley… - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
CdTe-based solar technology has achieved one of the lowest levelized costs of electricity
among all energy sources as well as state-of-the-art field stability. Yet, there is still ample …

CdTe solar cells with open-circuit voltage breaking the 1 V barrier

JM Burst, JN Duenow, DS Albin, E Colegrove… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
CdTe solar cells have the potential to undercut the costs of electricity generated by other
technologies, if the open-circuit voltage can be increased beyond 1 V without significant …

Benchmark performance of low-cost Sb2Se3 photocathodes for unassisted solar overall water splitting

W Yang, JH Kim, OS Hutter, LJ Phillips, J Tan… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Determining cost-effective semiconductors exhibiting desirable properties for commercial
photoelectrochemical water splitting remains a challenge. Herein, we report a Sb2Se3 …

Colloidal inorganic ligand-capped nanocrystals: fundamentals, status, and insights into advanced functional nanodevices

W Wang, M Zhang, Z Pan, GM Biesold, S Liang… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) are intriguing building blocks for assembling various functional
thin films and devices. The electronic, optoelectronic, and thermoelectric applications of …

GeSe thin-film solar cells fabricated by self-regulated rapid thermal sublimation

DJ Xue, SC Liu, CM Dai, S Chen, C He… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
GeSe has recently emerged as a promising photovoltaic absorber material due to its
attractive optical and electrical properties as well as earth-abundant and low-toxic …