[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Temporal-spatial-energy resolved advance multidimensional techniques to probe photovoltaic materials from atomistic viewpoint for next-generation energy solutions

V Kumar, M Kumar - Energy & Environmental Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar cell technologies have attracted great attention considering their potential to meet the
global energy demand in a sustainable fashion. There have been extensive research efforts …

Selenium passivates grain boundaries in alloyed CdTe solar cells

T Fiducia, A Howkins, A Abbas, B Mendis… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells have achieved efficiencies of over 22%, despite having
absorber layer grain sizes less than 10 μm and hence a very high density of grain …

As-doped CdSeTe solar cells achieving 22% efficiency with− 0.23%/° C temperature coefficient

WK Metzger, DW Miller, R Mallick, X Li… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since its inception, CdTe-based solar technology has been manufactured by using Cu to
dope the absorber and to form effective back contacts. Removing Cu and implementing …

[HTML][HTML] Diverse simulations of time-resolved photoluminescence in thin-film solar cells: A SnO2/CdSeyTe1− y case study

J Moseley, D Krasikov, C Lee… - Journal of applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) is widely used to measure carrier lifetime in thin-
film solar cell absorbers. However, the injection dependence of data and frequent non …

Exceeding 200 ns lifetimes in polycrystalline CdTe solar cells

T Ablekim, JN Duenow, CL Perkins, J Moseley… - Solar …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
CdTe photovoltaics has achieved one of the lowest levelized costs of electricity among all
energy sources. However, for decades, carrier lifetimes have been inferior to those of other …

Robust passivation of CdSeTe based solar cells using reactively sputtered magnesium zinc oxide

G Yeung, C Reich, A Onno, A Bothwell… - Solar energy materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Magnesium zinc oxide (MZO, Mg x Zn 1-x O) is a leading emitter for CdTe-based solar cells
due to its transparency and the ability to tune its conduction band offset with the absorber …

[HTML][HTML] Development of arsenic doped Cd (Se, Te) absorbers by MOCVD for thin film solar cells

O Oklobia, G Kartopu, S Jones, P Siderfin… - Solar energy materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent developments in CdTe solar cell technology have included the incorporation of
ternary alloy Cd (Se, Te) in the devices. CdTe absorber band gap grading due to Se alloying …

Effects of absorber near-interface compensation on Cd (Se, Te) solar cell performance

B Good, E Colegrove, MO Reese - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2022 - Elsevier
Arsenic (As) has been shown to be an effective p-type dopant for CdTe, although high
performance in As-doped devices remains difficult to achieve. Arsenic is prone to self …

Bandgap Engineering and Enhancing Optoelectronic Performance of a Lead-Free Double Perovskite Cs2AgBiBr6 Solar Cell via Al Doping

A Ullah, M Iftikhar Khan, Ihtisham-ul-haq… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this study, solar cells based on pure Cs2AgBiBr6 and Al-doped metal were fabricated
using the sol–gel spin-coating technique. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis confirmed the …