Recent advances in metal sulfides: from controlled fabrication to electrocatalytic, photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting and beyond

S Chandrasekaran, L Yao, L Deng, C Bowen… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, nanocrystals of metal sulfide materials have attracted scientific research
interest for renewable energy applications due to the abundant choice of materials with …

Temperature effect of photovoltaic cells: a review

C Sun, Y Zou, C Qin, B Zhang, X Wu - Advanced Composites and Hybrid …, 2022 - Springer
The environmental problems caused by the traditional energy sources consumption and
excessive carbon dioxide emissions are compressing the living space of mankind and …

Strategic review of secondary phases, defects and defect-complexes in kesterite CZTS–Se solar cells

M Kumar, A Dubey, N Adhikari… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Earth abundant kesterite copper-zinc-tin-sulfide–selenide (CZTS–Se) is considered as cost-
effective material for next generation solar cells. However, current CZTS–Se solar cells have …

Development of Cu2SnS3 (CTS) thin film solar cells by physical techniques: A status review

AC Lokhande, RBV Chalapathy, M He, E Jo… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
Developments in thin film solar cell technology have attracted major attention in the recent
years due to its capacity to reliably satisfy the required energy needs. Various solar absorber …

Review on Cu2SnS3, Cu3SnS4, and Cu4SnS4 thin films and their photovoltaic performance

VRM Reddy, MR Pallavolu, PR Guddeti, S Gedi… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The rapid progress on the Cu–Sn–S (Cu 2 SnS 3, Cu 3 SnS 4, and Cu 4 SnS 4) solar cells
has opened a new avenue to generate the electrical energy at ultra-low-cost. Therefore, the …

Theoretical exploration of high VOC in Cu2SnS3 thin film solar cells towards high efficiency

MJ Nayeen, BK Mondal, SR Basu, J Hossain - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This article manifests the outstanding performance of copper-tin-sulphide (Cu 2 SnS 3)-
based double-heterojunction (DH) photovoltaic cell. The n-type ZnSe as window and the p+ …

Cu2SnS3 based photovoltaic structure with improved open circuit voltage for air stable self-driven enhanced NIR photodetection

A Paul, B Krishnan, S Shaji, DA Avellaneda - Applied Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Copper tin sulfide (Cu 2 SnS 3) is an environmentally benign and economical
semiconductor comprising earth-abundant, non-toxic elements with flexible optoelectronic …

A one-step electrodeposition method was used to produce monoclinic Cu2SnS3 thin films for the development of solar cells

A Boudouma, O Ait Layachi, H Hrir… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Springer
The monoclinic compound semiconductor Cu2SnS3 (CTS) is a promising material for
absorbing solar energy, with a direct bandgap of 0.9 to 1.7 eV, making it an ideal choice for …

A review of defects and disorder in multinary tetrahedrally bonded semiconductors

LL Baranowski, P Zawadzki, S Lany… - Semiconductor …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Defects are critical to understanding the electronic properties of semiconducting
compounds, for applications such as light-emitting diodes, transistors, photovoltaics, and …

Physical routes for the synthesis of kesterite

T Ratz, G Brammertz, R Caballero, M León… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper provides an overview of the physical vapor technologies used to synthesize Cu 2
ZnSn (S, Se) 4 thin films as absorber layers for photovoltaic applications. Through the years …