Advances on Sb2Se3 Solar Cells Fabricated by Physical Vapor Deposition Techniques

R Jakomin, S Rampino, G Spaggiari, F Pattini - Solar, 2023 - mdpi.com
Sb2Se3, as an earth-abundant and low-toxic material, has emerged as one of the most
interesting absorbers for clean renewable power generation technologies. Due to its optical …

CuSbSe2 thin film solar cells with~ 4% conversion efficiency grown by low-temperature pulsed electron deposition

S Rampino, F Pattini, M Bronzoni, M Mazzer… - Solar energy materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract CuSb (S, Se) 2 is emerging as an alternative absorber for thin film photovoltaics, for
its intrinsic p-type conductivity, tunable energy bandgap (1.0÷ 1.6 eV), high absorption …

Exploring Cu-Doping for Performance Improvement in Sb2Se3 Photovoltaic Solar Cells

G Spaggiari, D Bersani, D Calestani, E Gilioli… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Copper-doped antimony selenide (Cu-doped Sb2Se3) thin films were deposited as
absorber layers in photovoltaic solar cells using the low-temperature pulsed electron …

Nanostructured Ag thin films deposited by pulsed electron ablation

A Gambardella, M Berni, G Graziani, A Kovtun… - Applied Surface …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanostructured thin films of silver (Ag) are receiving attention in many production fields
requiring adaptation to different substrate materials and fine control over surface texture …

A Comprehensive Perspective on the Fabrication of CuGaSe2/Si Tandem Solar Cells

S Prathapani, Y Zhan - Energy Technology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This review points out the current need for further research on tandem solar cells as the
commercial single‐junction solar cell technologies report close to their maximum …

Progress on Low-Temperature Pulsed Electron Deposition of CuInGaSe2 Solar Cells

M Mazzer, S Rampino, E Gombia, M Bronzoni, F Bissoli… - Energies, 2016 - mdpi.com
The quest for single-stage deposition of CuInGaSe2 (CIGS) is an open race to replace very
effective but capital intensive thin film solar cell manufacturing processes like multiple-stage …

Growth of multiferroic γ-BaFe2O4 thin films by Pulsed Electron Deposition technique

M Casappa, F Pattini, G Spaggiari, F Mezzadri… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Multiferroic materials have attracted significant attention due to their potential to
revolutionize logic and memory devices by reducing energy consumption or increasing …

An affordable method to produce CuInS2 'mechano-targets' for film deposition

D Delmonte, R Manfredi, D Calestani… - Semiconductor …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the room temperature, simple and cheap preparation by mechano-synthesis of
polycrystalline targets of complex sulphide semiconductors, namely CuInS 2 (CIS), to be …

Comparative study about Al-doped zinc oxide thin films deposited by pulsed electron deposition and radio frequency magnetron sputtering as transparent conductive …

F Pattini, F Annoni, F Bissoli, M Bronzoni, JP Garcia… - Thin Solid Films, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study, a comparison between Al-doped ZnO (AZO) as Transparent Conductive Oxide
for Cu (In, Ga) Se 2-based solar cells grown by Pulsed Electron Deposition (PED) and Radio …

Modeling of beam-target interaction during pulsed electron beam ablation of graphite: Case of melting

M Ali, R Henda - Applied Surface Science, 2017 - Elsevier
A one-dimensional thermal model based on a two-stage heat conduction equation is
employed to investigate the ablation of graphite target during nanosecond pulsed electron …