Grain boundary engineering: An emerging pathway toward efficient electrocatalysis

X Xu, Y Zhong, M Wajrak, T Bhatelia, SP Jiang… - InfoMat, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical transformation processes involving carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen,
and small‐molecule chemistries represent a promising means to store renewable energy …

Perovskite tandem solar cells: from fundamentals to commercial deployment

H Li, W Zhang - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Multi-junction (tandem) solar cells (TSCs) consisting of multiple light absorbers with
considerably different band gaps show great potential in breaking the Shockley–Queisser (S …

Sb2Se3 Thin‐Film Solar Cells Exceeding 10% Power Conversion Efficiency Enabled by Injection Vapor Deposition Technology

Z Duan, X Liang, Y Feng, H Ma, B Liang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Binary Sb2Se3 semiconductors are promising as the absorber materials in
inorganic chalcogenide compound photovoltaics due to their attractive anisotropic …

Grain Engineering of Sb2S3 Thin Films to Enable Efficient Planar Solar Cells with High Open‐Circuit Voltage

X Liu, Z Cai, L Wan, P Xiao, B Che, J Yang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sb2S3 is a promising environmentally friendly semiconductor for high performance solar
cells. But, like many other polycrystalline materials, Sb2S3 is limited by nonradiative …

High-concentration silver alloying and steep back-contact gallium grading enabling copper indium gallium selenide solar cell with 23.6% efficiency

J Keller, K Kiselman, O Donzel-Gargand, NM Martin… - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
Chalcopyrite-based solar cells have reached an efficiency of 23.35%, yet further
improvements have been challenging. Here we present a 23.64% certified efficiency for a …

Synergistic Effects of Cation and Anion in an Ionic Imidazolium Tetrafluoroborate Additive for Improving the Efficiency and Stability of Half‐Mixed Pb‐Sn Perovskite …

H Kim, JW Lee, GR Han, SK Kim… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Narrow‐bandgap mixed Pb‐Sn perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have great feasibility
for constructing efficient all‐perovskite tandem solar cells, in combination with wide …

Understanding the Role of Grain Boundaries on Charge‐Carrier and Ion Transport in Cs2AgBiBr6 Thin Films

Z Li, SP Senanayak, L Dai, G Kusch… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Halide double perovskites have gained significant attention, owing to their composition of
low‐toxicity elements, stability in air, and recent demonstrations of long charge‐carrier …

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 …

Heavy Alkali Treatment of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells: Surface versus Bulk Effects

S Siebentritt, E Avancini, M Bär… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Chalcopyrite solar cells achieve efficiencies above 23%. The latest improvements are due to
post‐deposition treatments (PDT) with heavy alkalis. This study provides a comprehensive …

Grain boundary defect passivation of triple cation mixed halide perovskite with hydrazine-based aromatic iodide for efficiency improvement

SI Rahman, BS Lamsal, A Gurung… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Perovskites have been unprecedented with a relatively sharp rise in power conversion
efficiency in the last decade. However, the polycrystalline nature of the perovskite film makes …