Current status of n-type SnS: paving the way for SnS homojunction solar cells

I Suzuki, S Kawanishi, T Omata… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Orthorhombic SnS is a promising thin-film solar-cell material composed of safe and
abundant elements with suitable optical properties for photovoltaic application. For …

Emerging earth-abundant solar absorbers

JW Choi, B Shin, P Gorai, RLZ Hoye, R Palgrave - 2022 - ACS Publications
Developing solar absorbers that are efficient, low-cost, stable, and composed of nontoxic,
Earth-abundant elements has long been the holy grail of nextgeneration photovoltaics (PV) …

Multi‐Phase Sputtered TiO2‐Induced Current–Voltage Distortion in Sb2Se3 Solar Cells

CH Don, TP Shalvey, MJ Smiles… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the recent success of CdS/Sb2Se3 heterojunction devices, cadmium toxicity,
parasitic absorption from the relatively narrow CdS band gap (2.4 eV) and multiple reports of …

Solution phase treatments of Sb 2 Se 3 heterojunction photocathodes for improved water splitting performance

P Adams, F Creazzo, T Moehl, R Crockett… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) is an auspicious material for solar energy conversion that has
seen rapid improvement over the past ten years, but the photovoltage deficit remains a …

Hidden spontaneous polarisation in the chalcohalide photovoltaic absorber Sn 2 SbS 2 I 3

SR Kavanagh, CN Savory, DO Scanlon, A Walsh - Materials Horizons, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Perovskite-inspired materials aim to replicate the optoelectronic performance of lead-halide
perovskites, while eliminating issues with stability and toxicity. Chalcohalides of group IV/V …

Sb2S3 Thin-Film Solar Cells Fabricated from an Antimony Ethyl Xanthate Based Precursor in Air

JS Eensalu, S Mandati, CH Don, H Finch… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The rapidly expanding demand for photovoltaics (PVs) requires stable, quick, and easy to
manufacture solar cells based on socioeconomically and ecologically viable earth-abundant …

Improved Polarization in the Sr6Cd2Sb6O7Se10 Oxyselenide through Design of Lateral Sublattices for Efficient Photoelectric Conversion

R Wang, F Wang, X Zhang, X Feng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Highly‐polarizable materials are favorable for photoelectric conversion due to their efficient
charge separation, while precise design of them is still a big challenge. Herein a novel polar …

P-type conductivity in Sn-doped Sb2Se3

TDC Hobson, H Shiel, CN Savory… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) is a promising absorber material for thin-film
photovoltaics. However, certain areas of fundamental understanding of this material remain …

Ge 4s 2 lone pairs and band alignments in GeS and GeSe for photovoltaics

MJ Smiles, JM Skelton, H Shiel, LAH Jones… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Germanium sulfide and germanium selenide bulk crystals were prepared using a melt
growth technique. X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) was used to determine …

[HTML][HTML] Band alignment of Sb2O3 and Sb2Se3

H Shiel, TDC Hobson, OS Hutter, LJ Phillips… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Antimony selenide (Sb 2 Se 3⁠) possesses great potential in the field of photovoltaics (PV)
due to its suitable properties for use as a solar absorber and good prospects for scalability …