High-performance SnSe thermoelectric materials: Progress and future challenge

ZG Chen, X Shi, LD Zhao, J Zou - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials offer an alternative opportunity to tackle the energy crisis and
environmental problems by enabling the direct solid-state energy conversion. As a …

High‐performance thermoelectric SnSe: aqueous synthesis, innovations, and challenges

XL Shi, X Tao, J Zou, ZG Chen - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tin selenide (SnSe) is one of the most promising candidates to realize environmentally
friendly, cost‐effective, and high‐performance thermoelectrics, derived from its outstanding …

Recent advances in SnSe nanostructures beyond thermoelectricity

F Li, H Wang, R Huang, W Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Layered SnSe is an emerging class of black phosphorus, which is non‐toxic, eco‐friendly,
and chemically stable. Recently, SnSe nanostructures have triggered more research interest …

Effectiveness of Sn-addition on optical properties and physicochemical parameters of SnxSb2-xSe3 thin films

AS Hassanien, IM El Radaf - Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
This research work is allocated to prepare the novel thin Sn x Sb 2-x Se 3 films, TSSe by
thermal evaporation procedure at various Sn-content, where 0≤ x≤ 2 at.%. The field …

New earth-abundant thin film solar cells based on chalcogenides

A Le Donne, V Trifiletti, S Binetti - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
At the end of 2017 roughly 1.8% of the worldwide electricity came from solar photovoltaics
(PV), which is foreseen to have a key role in all major future energy scenarios with an …

Tunable negative differential resistance in van der Waals heterostructures at room temperature by tailoring the interface

S Fan, QA Vu, S Lee, TL Phan, G Han, YM Kim… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Vertically stacked two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures, used to obtain
homogeneity and band steepness at interfaces, exhibit promising performance for band-to …

Strategy to improve the efficiency of tin selenide based solar cell: A path from 1.02 to 27.72%

M Kumar, S Rani, Y Singh, A Kumar, VN Singh - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar energy is one of the most reliable, clean, and cheap renewable energy sources. One
significant obstacle to harnessing this energy is cheap and efficient material to convert solar …

Kinetically Controlled Growth of Phase‐Pure SnS Absorbers for Thin Film Solar Cells: Achieving Efficiency Near 3% with Long‐Term Stability Using an SnS/CdS …

D Lim, H Suh, M Suryawanshi, GY Song… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Facile control over the morphology of phase pure tin monosulfide (SnS) thin films, a
promising future absorber for thin film solar cells, is enabled by controlling the growth …

Constructing quasi-layered and self-hole doped SnSe oriented films to achieve excellent thermoelectric power factor and output power density

Y Xue, Q Wang, Z Gao, X Qian, J Wang, G Yan… - Science Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric (TE) technology can achieve the mutual conversion between electric energy
and waste heat, and it has exhibited great prospects in multifunctional energy applications to …

Enhancement of monolayer SnSe light absorption by strain engineering: a DFT calculation

TV Vu, HD Tong, TK Nguyen, CV Nguyen… - Chemical Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
Strain effects on the electronic and optical properties of monolayer SnSe is studied by APW+
lo method in DFT framework. The applied strains cause direct-indirect transition of SnSe …