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 …

The current state of knowledge on the impact of grain boundaries in CdTe solar cells is
reviewed with emphasis being placed on working cell structures. The role of the chemical …

This first comprehensive description of the most important material properties and device
aspects closes the gap between general books on solar cells and journal articles on …

Cadmium telluride, CdTe, is now firmly established as the basis for the market-leading thin-
film solar-cell technology. With laboratory efficiencies approaching 20 per cent, the research …

In developing photovoltaic devices with high efficiencies, quantitative determination of the
carrier loss is crucial. In conventional solar-cell characterization techniques, however …

The superior performance of certain polycrystalline (PX) solar cells compared to that of
corresponding single‐crystal ones has been an enigma until recently. Conventional …

Recent studies of thin-film CdS/CdTe photovoltaic (PV) devices have suggested that a
significantly higher device performance will not be achieved unless recombination in the …

In this work we demonstrate single axial pin junction InP nanowire (NW) solar cells grown by
selective-area metal organic vapor phase epitaxy (SA-MOVPE) technique. A power …

We use two-dimensional computer simulations to examine how charged columnar grain
boundaries (GBs) affect transport, recombination, characterization, and performance in …

The influence of microstructural defects on the device properties in CdTe remains largely
unknown. This is partly because characterization techniques have been unable to image …