CdTe-based thin film photovoltaics: Recent advances, current challenges and future prospects

MA Scarpulla, B McCandless, AB Phillips, Y Yan… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cadmium telluride (CdTe)-based cells have emerged as the leading commercialized thin
film photovoltaic technology and has intrinsically better temperature coefficients, energy …

Physics and chemistry of CdTe/CdS thin film heterojunction photovoltaic devices: fundamental and critical aspects

SG Kumar, KSRK Rao - Energy & Environmental Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

MoS2 P-type Transistors and Diodes Enabled by High Work Function MoOx Contacts

S Chuang, C Battaglia, A Azcatl, S McDonnell… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The development of low-resistance source/drain contacts to transition-metal
dichalcogenides (TMDCs) is crucial for the realization of high-performance logic …

A numerical simulation of high efficiency CdS/CdTe based solar cell using NiO HTL and ZnO TCO

S Ahmmed, A Aktar, MF Rahman, J Hossain… - Optik, 2020 - Elsevier
Simulation of cadmium sulfide (CdS) and cadmium telluride (CdTe) based solar cell
(ZnO/CdS/CdTe/NiO/Au) using Solar Cell Capacitance Simulator-1D (SCAPS-1D) has been …

Nanoarchitectures in dye-sensitized solar cells: metal oxides, oxide perovskites and carbon-based materials

JS Shaikh, NS Shaikh, SS Mali, JV Patil, KK Pawar… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have aroused great interest and been regarded as a
potential renewable energy resource among the third-generation solar cell technologies to …

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 …

Back contacts materials used in thin film CdTe solar cells—A review

RS Hall, D Lamb, SJC Irvine - Energy Science & Engineering, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
CdTe is the leading commercial thin film photovoltaic technology with current record
laboratory efficiency (22.1%). However, there is much potential for progress toward the …

Modeling and simulation of tin sulfide (SnS)-based solar cell using ZnO as transparent conductive oxide (TCO) and NiO as hole transport layer (HTL)

A Umar, P Tiwari, Sadanand, V Srivastava, P Lohia… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper describes the simulation by Solar Cell Capacitance Simulator-1D (SCAPS-1D)
software of ZnO/CdS/SnS/NiO/Au solar cells, in which zinc oxide (ZnO) is used as …

Bilayer MoOX/CrOX Passivating Contact Targeting Highly Stable Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

J Li, T Pan, J Wang, S Cao, Y Lin, B Hoex… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Molybdenum oxide (MoOX, X< 3) has been successfully demonstrated as an efficient
passivating hole-selective contact in crystalline Si (c-Si) heterojunction solar cells because …

CdTe thin film solar cell with NiO as a back contact buffer layer

D Xiao, X Li, D Wang, Q Li, K Shen, D Wang - Solar Energy Materials and …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, p-type NiO thin film was applied as a buffer layer in the back contact for CdTe
thin film solar cell fabrication. The NiO layers were prepared by electron beam evaporation …