Flexible CIGS, CdTe and a-Si: H based thin film solar cells: A review

J Ramanujam, DM Bishop, TK Todorov… - Progress in Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Flexible thin film solar cells such as CIGS, CdTe, and a-Si: H have received worldwide
attention. Until now, Si solar cells dominate the photovoltaic market. Its production cost is a …

CdTe-based thin film solar cells: past, present and future

A Romeo, E Artegiani - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
CdTe is a very robust and chemically stable material and for this reason its related solar cell
thin film photovoltaic technology is now the only thin film technology in the first 10 top …

Recent progress towards photovoltaics' circular economy

MKH Rabaia, C Semeraro, AG Olabi - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Massive expansions in the global population and the global digitalization throughout the
industrial revolution are causing energy security issues that are no longer environmentally …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis and optimisation of the glass/TCO/MZO stack for thin film CdTe solar cells

F Bittau, C Potamialis, M Togay, A Abbas… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Magnesium-doped Zinc Oxide (MZO) films have recently been proposed as a
transparent buffer layer for thin film CdTe solar cells. In this study, the band gap of MZO …

CdTe solar cells: technology, operation and reliability

M Barbato, E Artegiani, M Bertoncello… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last 20 years, the technological improvements of CdTe solar cell have been
impressive, and today the performance of these cells is comparable with that of silicon cells …

Eliminating s-kink to maximize the performance of MgZnO/CdTe solar cells

DB Li, Z Song, RA Awni, SS Bista… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Comparing to the traditional CdS buffer layer, zinc magnesium oxide (ZMO) offers the
following advantages for CdTe-based thin-film solar cells: it introduces a spike to conduction …

On current technology for light absorber materials used in highly efficient industrial solar cells

AKW Chee - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The renewable power industry is currently experiencing a rapid growth led by photovoltaic
systems because of advances in materials science and cost reductions in processing …

Low substrate temperature CdTe solar cells: A review

A Romeo, E Artegiani, D Menossi - Solar Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
CdTe photovoltaic technology is one of the first being brought into production together with
amorphous silicon (already in the mid 90s Solar Cells Inc. in USA, Antec Solar and BP Solar …

A new method for CdSexTe1-x band grading for high efficiency thin-absorber CdTe solar cells

E Artegiani, A Gasparotto, P Punathil, V Kumar… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years the efficiency of CdTe based solar cells has been significantly improved,
mainly by the increase of the short circuit current value. This has been achieved by removing …

Degradation of Mg-doped zinc oxide buffer layers in thin film CdTe solar cells

F Bittau, S Jagdale, C Potamialis, JW Bowers, JM Walls… - Thin Solid Films, 2019 - Elsevier
Cadmium Sulphide is the conventional n-type buffer layer used in thin film Cadmium
Telluride solar cells. It is well known that Cadmium Sulphide causes optical losses and …