Lead-halide perovskites have demonstrated astonishing increases in power conversion
efficiency in photovoltaics over the last decade. The most efficient perovskite devices now …

2D copper-based semiconductors generally possess low lattice thermal conductivity due to
their strong anharmonic scattering and quantum confinement effect, making them promising …

The electronic structure and optical properties of a ternary thiostannate compound (α-Ba 2
SnS 4) have been successfully predicted via ab initio calculations. Optimized structure was …

Copper antimony chalcogenides CuSbCh 2 (Ch= S, Se) are an emerging family of
absorbers studied for thin-film solar cells. These non-toxic and Earth-abundant materials …

The structural, electronic, spectral and optical properties of the ternary semiconducting
material CuXY 2 (X= Sb, Bi; Y= S, Se, Te) are computed using the density functional theory …

Abstract Design of efficient solar energy-conversion materials has attracted much interest in
the last few decades. Among these materials, copper-based semiconducting chalcogenides …

Chalcostibite (CuSbS 2) is composed of earth-abundant elements and has a proper band
gap (E g= 1.05 eV) as a thermoelectric (TE) material. Herein, we report the TE properties in …

Due to a suitable band gap and high optical absorption in the visible spectrum, copper
bismuth sulfide (CBS) has raised concern as one of the potential photovoltaic absorber …

Sulfosalt thin film can be applied to a thermoelectric material due to its tunable electrical
properties and low thermal conductivity. In this work, we study the thermoelectric figure of …

Alkali-metal-ion doping is an efficient strategy to improve the device performance of thin film
solar cells. Though doping with Li+ or Cs+ doping has been reported in Ag–Bi–I solar cells …