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 …

Exceeding 20% efficiency with in situ group V doping in polycrystalline CdTe solar cells

WK Metzger, S Grover, D Lu, E Colegrove, J Moseley… - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
CdTe-based solar technology has achieved one of the lowest levelized costs of electricity
among all energy sources as well as state-of-the-art field stability. Yet, there is still ample …

Thin-film solar cells with 19% efficiency by thermal evaporation of CdSe and CdTe

T Ablekim, JN Duenow, X Zheng, H Moutinho… - ACS Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
CdTe-based solar cells exhibiting 19% power conversion efficiency were produced using
widely available thermal evaporation deposition of the absorber layers on SnO2-coated …

Recombination and bandgap engineering in CdSeTe/CdTe solar cells

X Zheng, D Kuciauskas, J Moseley, E Colegrove… - Apl Materials, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Selenium compositional grading in CdTe-based thin-film solar cells substantively improves
carrier lifetime and performance. However, where and how recombination lifetime improves …

Performance enhancement of CIGS solar cell with two dimensional MoS2 hole transport layer

AK Patel, R Mishra, SK Soni - Micro and Nanostructures, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper describes a performance analysis of solar cell based on Cu (In 1-x Ga x) Se 2
(CIGS) material as an absorber layer together with two dimensional (2d)-MoS 2 as hole …

The role of back buffer layers and absorber properties for> 25% efficient CdTe solar cells

GK Liyanage, AB Phillips, FK Alfadhili… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2019 - ACS Publications
As the performance of the front interface and the CdTe absorber are improved, minority
carrier recombination at the back of the device will limit the photoconversion efficiency. To …

Tweaking the performance of thin film CIGS solar cell using InP as buffer layer

M Deo, RK Chauhan - Optik, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a high performing copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS)(CuIn 1− x Ga x Se 2)
based solar cell is designed using less toxic indium phosphide (InP) as a buffer layer …

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 …

Highly improved light harvesting and photovoltaic performance in CdTe solar cell with functional designed 1D-photonic crystal via light management engineering

Ç Çetinkaya, E Çokduygulular, B Kınacı… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Photonic-based functional designs and integrations for advanced optoelectronic devices are
regarded as promising candidates considering the enhancement of efficiency and tunability …

Why Increased CdSeTe Charge Carrier Lifetimes and Radiative Efficiencies did not Result in Voltage Boost for CdTe Solar Cells

D Kuciauskas, M Nardone, A Bothwell… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
After a focused effort over the last decade, order‐of‐magnitude improvements in doping and
electro‐optical characteristics (radiative efficiency, carrier lifetime, and passivation) have …