Progress and perspectives of thin film kesterite photovoltaic technology: a critical review

S Giraldo, Z Jehl, M Placidi… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The latest progress and future perspectives of thin film photovoltaic kesterite technology are
reviewed herein. Kesterite is currently the most promising emerging fully inorganic thin film …

Strategic review of secondary phases, defects and defect-complexes in kesterite CZTS–Se solar cells

M Kumar, A Dubey, N Adhikari… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Earth abundant kesterite copper-zinc-tin-sulfide–selenide (CZTS–Se) is considered as cost-
effective material for next generation solar cells. However, current CZTS–Se solar cells have …

Classification of Lattice Defects in the Kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 and Cu2ZnSnSe4 Earth‐Abundant Solar Cell Absorbers

S Chen, A Walsh, XG Gong, SH Wei - Advanced materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The kesterite‐structured semiconductors Cu2ZnSnS4 and Cu2ZnSnSe4 are drawing
considerable attention recently as the active layers in earth‐abundant low‐cost thin‐film …

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 …

Kesterite Thin‐Film Solar Cells: Advances in Materials Modelling of Cu2ZnSnS4

A Walsh, S Chen, SH Wei… - Advanced Energy …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Quaternary semiconducting materials based on the kesterite (A2BCX4) mineral structure are
the most promising candidates to overtake the current generation of light‐absorbing …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

A Detrimental Reaction at the Molybdenum Back Contact in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 Thin-Film Solar Cells

JJ Scragg, JT Watjen, M Edoff, T Ericson… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Experimental proof is presented for a hitherto undetected solid-state reaction between the
solar cell material Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTS (e)) and the standard metallic back contact …

Why are kesterite solar cells not 20% efficient?

S Siebentritt - Thin solid films, 2013 - Elsevier
Although kesterite solar cells show the same range of band gaps as the related
chalcopyrites, their efficiencies have so far reached only 10%, compared with 20% for the …

[HTML][HTML] On the origin of band-tails in kesterite

G Rey, G Larramona, S Bourdais, C Choné… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Kesterite Cu 2 ZnSn (S x Se 1− x) 4 is an attractive earth-abundant material for low-
cost thin film photovoltaics with the capability to achieve power production in the terawatt …

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 …