Emerging chalcogenide thin films for solar energy harvesting devices

S Hadke, M Huang, C Chen, YF Tay, S Chen… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Chalcogenide semiconductors offer excellent optoelectronic properties for their use in solar
cells, exemplified by the commercialization of Cu (In, Ga) Se2-and CdTe-based photovoltaic …

Chalcogenide perovskites: tantalizing prospects, challenging materials

KV Sopiha, C Comparotto, JA Márquez… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Chalcogenide perovskites have recently emerged into the spotlight as highly robust, earth
abundant, and nontoxic candidates for various energy conversion applications, not least …

Crystal growth promotion and defects healing enable minimum open‐circuit voltage deficit in antimony selenide solar cells

G Liang, M Chen, M Ishaq, X Li, R Tang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) is an ideal photovoltaic candidate profiting from its
advantageous material characteristics and superior optoelectronic properties, and has …

Unveiling microscopic carrier loss mechanisms in 12% efficient Cu2ZnSnSe4 solar cells

J Li, J Huang, F Ma, H Sun, J Cong, K Privat… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding carrier loss mechanisms at microscopic regions is imperative for the
development of high-performance polycrystalline inorganic thin-film solar cells. Despite the …

Kesterite solar cells: insights into current strategies and challenges

M He, C Yan, J Li, MP Suryawanshi, J Kim… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Earth‐abundant and environmentally benign kesterite Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) is a
promising alternative to its cousin chalcopyrite Cu (In, Ga)(S, Se) 2 (CIGS) for photovoltaic …

Open-circuit voltage loss of antimony chalcogenide solar cells: status, origin, and possible solutions

C Chen, J Tang - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recently, antimony chalcogenide solar cells including Sb2S3, Sb2Se3, and Sb2 (S, Se) 3
have obtained considerable progress, with efficiency up to 7.5%, 9.2%, and 7.82 …

Device performance of emerging photovoltaic materials (version 1)

O Almora, D Baran, GC Bazan, C Berger… - Advanced energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging photovoltaics (PVs) focus on a variety of applications complementing large scale
electricity generation. Organic, dye‐sensitized, and some perovskite solar cells are …

Emerging inorganic solar cell efficiency tables (version 2)

A Zakutayev, JD Major, X Hao, A Walsh… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents the second version of the efficiency tables of materials considered as
emerging inorganic absorbers for photovoltaic solar cell technologies. The materials …

Isotype Heterojunction Solar Cells Using n-Type Sb2Se3 Thin Films

TDC Hobson, LJ Phillips, OS Hutter, H Shiel… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The carrier-type of the emerging photovoltaic Sb2Se3 was evaluated for both thin films and
bulk crystals via a range of complementary techniques. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy …

Design and optimization of highly efficient perovskite/homojunction SnS tandem solar cells using SCAPS-1D

F Jafarzadeh, H Aghili, H Nikbakht, S Javadpour - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Double-junction tandem solar cells containing a wide-bandgap top cell and a narrow-
bandgap bottom cell have a great potential to outperform current single-junction photovoltaic …