Photovoltaic applications: Status and manufacturing prospects

MH Alaaeddin, SM Sapuan, MYM Zuhri… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the last two decades, advancements in photovoltaic (PV) technology have been
flourishing due to the continuous flow of valuable findings. Relevant insights on recent …

High efficiency CIGS solar cells by bulk defect passivation through Ag substituting strategy

Y Zhao, S Yuan, D Kou, Z Zhou, X Wang… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Cu (In, Ga) Se2 (CIGS) is considered a promising photovoltaics material due to its excellent
properties and high efficiency. However, the complicated deep defects (such as InCu or …

Recent advancement in perovskite solar cell with imidazole additive

IBA Ghani, M Khalid, MI Hussain, MM Hussain… - Materials Science in …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this review, we briefly summarize imidazole (Im) and its derivatives as an additive for
perovskite solar cells (PSCs) to enhance not only efficiency but also long-term stability. The …

Analysis of recombination mechanisms in RbF-treated CIGS solar cells

S Karki, P Paul, G Rajan, B Belfore… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we studied the effect of rubidium fluoride (RbF) post-deposition treatment
(PDT) on the properties of Cu (In, Ga) Se 2 (CIGS) solar cells. Specifically, the recombination …

Comparison of Ag and Ga alloying in low bandgap CuInSe2-based solar cells

N Valdes, JW Lee, W Shafarman - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2019 - Elsevier
Solar cells based on CuInSe 2 (CIS) with absorber bandgap 1.0 eV are excellent candidates
for a bottom cell in a tandem solar cell. This work investigates the effect of alloys of Ag and …

Mixed Solvents Assisted Post‐Treatment Enables High‐Efficiency Single‐Junction Perovskite and 4T Perovskite/CIGS Tandem Solar Cells

L Tang, X Wang, X Liu, J Zhang, S Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The interface between the perovskite layer and the hole transport layer (HTL) plays a vital
role in hole extraction and electron blocking in perovskite solar cells (PSCs), and it is …

Single-crystal Cu (In, Ga) Se2 solar cells grown on GaAs substrates

J Nishinaga, T Nagai, T Sugaya… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Single-crystal Cu (In, Ga) Se 2 (CIGS) solar cells were produced with techniques
developed for high-efficiency polycrystalline CIGS solar cells. The CIGS layers of a lattice …

Influence of Ga and Ag on the KF treatment chemistry for CIGS solar cells

NH Valdes, KJ Jones, RL Opila… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The KF postdeposition treatment (KF-PDT) is compared on Cu (In, Ga) Se 2 (CIGS) and
CuInSe 2 (CIS), as well as Ag alloyed CIGS and CIS (ACIGS and ACIS), with the focus on …

Comprehensive characterization of CIGS absorber layers grown by one-step sputtering process

JC Park, M Al-Jassim, SW Shin, JH Kim, TW Kim - Ceramics International, 2019 - Elsevier
We have demonstrated that the use of a one-step sputtering process allowed for the
fabrication of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin films by RF magnetron sputtering …

Photon-induced defects and dynamics of photogenerated carriers in Cu (In, Ga) Se2 thin film solar cells

Y Cho, J Hwang, I Jeong, J Gwak, JH Yun… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
A detailed understanding of charge-carrier behavior could provide new avenues to improve
the performance of the solar cell by enhancing the active materials and electronic properties …