Among the armoury of photovoltaic materials, thin film heterojunction photovoltaics continue
to be a promising candidate for solar energy conversion delivering a vast scope in terms of …

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has achieved maturity as an analytical technique in
that it is a ubiquitous tool in the materials community, however as made apparent by recent …

Halide double perovskites have gained significant attention, owing to their composition of
low‐toxicity elements, stability in air, and recent demonstrations of long charge‐carrier …

Solution-processed organic and inorganic semiconductors offer a promising path towards
low-cost mass production of solar cells. Among the various material systems, solution …

The current state of knowledge on the impact of grain boundaries in CdTe solar cells is
reviewed with emphasis being placed on working cell structures. The role of the chemical …

Since 1993 it has been recognized that for solar cells based on the chalcogenide absorber
material Cu (In, Ga) Se 2 (CIGSe) the incorporation of Na is crucial to obtain the highest …

Thin film cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells are the basis of a rapidly expanding
technology with major commercial impact on solar energy production. As the leading …

A model is presented for optimising the integrated intensity of light passing into the absorber
layers of thin-film solar cells. Dispersion data for each of the transparent layers in the cells …

The earth-abundant material CuSbS2 (CAS) has shown good optical properties as a
photovoltaic solar absorber material, but has seen relatively poor solar cell performance. To …

DOI: 10.1002/aenm. 201501142 voltage and the overall electrical behavior of a device
strongly depend on the nonradiative recombination rate of the charge carriers within a …