Defect engineering in multinary earth‐abundant chalcogenide photovoltaic materials

D Shin, B Saparov, DB Mitzi - Advanced Energy Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Application of zinc‐blende‐related chalcogenide absorbers such as CdTe and Cu (In, Ga)
Se2 (CIGSe) has enabled remarkable advancement in laboratory‐and commercial‐scale …

A review on pulsed laser deposited CZTS thin films for solar cell applications

SA Vanalakar, GL Agawane, SW Shin… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Cu 2 ZnSnS 4; commonly abbreviated as CZTS is a promising material for low cost thin film
solar cells, because of its suitable band gap energy of around 1.5 eV and large absorption …

Point defects, compositional fluctuations, and secondary phases in non-stoichiometric kesterites

S Schorr, G Gurieva, M Guc… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The efficiency of kesterite-based solar cells is limited by various non-ideal recombination
paths, amongst others by a high density of defect states and by the presence of binary or …

The band gap of Cu2ZnSnSe4: Effect of order-disorder

G Rey, A Redinger, J Sendler, TP Weiss… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The order-disorder transition in kesterite Cu 2 ZnSnSe 4 (CZTSe), an interesting material for
solar cell, has been investigated by spectrophotometry, photoluminescence (PL), and …

Nontoxic and earth-abundant Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin film solar cells: A review on high throughput processed methods

S Chander, SK Tripathi, I Kaur, AK De - Materials Today Sustainability, 2024 - Elsevier
Photovoltaics is one of the most well-known sustainable technologies to supply all of the
world's energy needs due to its enduring nature and lack of pollution. CdTe, CIGS, and a-Si …

Recent development in earth-abundant kesterite materials and their applications

AS Nazligul, M Wang, KL Choy - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) has attracted attention as an earth-abundant alternative to
commercially successful CIGS solar cells. CZTS exhibits decent optoelectrical properties …

Solid-state NMR and Raman spectroscopy to address the local structure of defects and the tricky issue of the Cu/Zn disorder in Cu-poor, Zn-rich CZTS materials

M Paris, L Choubrac, A Lafond… - Inorganic …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The material Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTS) offers a promising indium-free alternative to Cu (In,
Ga) Se2 for the absorber layer in thin-film solar cells. It is known that the highest solar …

Raman scattering crystalline assessment of polycrystalline Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films for sustainable photovoltaic technologies: Phonon confinement model

M Dimitrievska, A Fairbrother, A Pérez-Rodríguez… - Acta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Phonon confinement effects in the Raman scattering spectra from polycrystalline Cu 2
ZnSnS 4 thin films synthesized with different crystalline qualities–including photovoltaic …

[HTML][HTML] Inkjet‐Printed Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 Solar Cells

X Lin, J Kavalakkatt, MC Lux‐Steiner… - Advanced science, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Cu 2 ZnSn (S, Se) 4‐based solar cells with total area (0.5 cm 2) power conversion
efficiency of 6.4% are demonstrated from thin film absorbers processed by inkjet printing …

Impact of molybdenum out diffusion and interface quality on the performance of sputter grown CZTS based solar cells

GK Dalapati, S Zhuk, S Masudy-Panah, A Kushwaha… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We have investigated the impact of Cu2ZnSnS4-Molybdenum (Mo) interface quality on the
performance of sputter-grown Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) solar cell. Thin film CZTS was deposited …