Doping and alloying of kesterites

YE Romanyuk, SG Haass, S Giraldo… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Attempts to improve the efficiency of kesterite solar cells by changing the intrinsic
stoichiometry have not helped to boost the device efficiency beyond the current record of …

New earth-abundant thin film solar cells based on chalcogenides

A Le Donne, V Trifiletti, S Binetti - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
At the end of 2017 roughly 1.8% of the worldwide electricity came from solar photovoltaics
(PV), which is foreseen to have a key role in all major future energy scenarios with an …

Substitution of Zn in Earth‐Abundant Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 based thin film solar cells–A status review

MS Kumar, SP Madhusudanan, SK Batabyal - Solar Energy Materials and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS) and Cu 2 ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) are the most promising
quaternary earth abundant photo-absorber materials for thin film solar cells, with reported …

Defect suppression in multinary chalcogenide photovoltaic materials derived from kesterite: progress and outlook

Q Tian, SF Liu - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The performance of many emerging multinary chalcogenides for photovoltaic (PV)
applications has been considerably inferior to the Shockley–Queisser limit, and one of the …

Multinary copper-based chalcogenide nanocrystal systems from the perspective of device applications

S Palchoudhury, K Ramasamy, A Gupta - Nanoscale Advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Multinary chalcogenide semiconductor nanocrystals are a unique class of materials as they
offer flexibility in composition, structure, and morphology for controlled band gap and optical …

A comprehensive review on the recent strategy of cation substitution in CZTS (Se) thin films to achieve highly efficient kesterite solar cells

M Kangsabanik, RN Gayen - Solar RRL, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) and selenized CZTS (CZTSSe) are the most potential
replacements of Cu (InxGa1− x) Se2 as absorber layers in thin‐film solar cells, aligning with …

Solvothermal synthesis of CMTS quaternary semiconductor nanoparticles with a symmetric kesterite structure: The role of the autoclave filling factor

B Talebi, M Moradi - Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects, 2023 - Elsevier
Copper manganese tin sulfide (CMTS) is one of the promising chalcogenide materials and a
potential candidate as an absorber material to develop low-cost, ultrathin solar cells. CMTS …

[HTML][HTML] Manganese-substituted kesterite thin-films for earth-abundant photovoltaic applications

V Trifiletti, L Frioni, G Tseberlidis, E Vitiello… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Thin film photovoltaic devices based on CdTe and Cu (In, Ga) Se 2 find in Cu 2 ZnSn (S, Se)
4-based technology a more eco-friendly alternative. To further reduce production costs and …

The fabrication of Cu2BaSnS4 thin film solar cells utilizing a maskant layer

H Guo, C Ma, Z Chen, X Jia, Q Cang, N Yuan, J Ding - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Cu 2 BaSnS 4 (CBTS) is a low cost, non-toxic material composed of abundant
elements with a large optical absorption coefficient. However, in CBTS solar cells, elemental …

Band-gap tuning induced by germanium introduction in solution-processed kesterite thin films

G Tseberlidis, V Trifiletti, E Vitiello, AH Husien… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the last few decades, the attention of scientific community has been driven toward the
research on renewable energies. In particular, the photovoltaic (PV) thin-film technology has …