Emerging chalcogenide thin films for solar energy harvesting devices

S Hadke, M Huang, C Chen, YF Tay, S Chen… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Chalcogenide semiconductors offer excellent optoelectronic properties for their use in solar
cells, exemplified by the commercialization of Cu (In, Ga) Se2-and CdTe-based photovoltaic …

Photoelectrochemical water splitting: a road from stable metal oxides to protected thin film solar cells

C Ros, T Andreu, JR Morante - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting has attracted great attention during past decades
thanks to the possibility to reduce the production costs of hydrogen or other solar fuels, by …

Point defect engineering in thin-film solar cells

JS Park, S Kim, Z Xie, A Walsh - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Control of defect processes in photovoltaic materials is essential for realizing high-efficiency
solar cells and related optoelectronic devices. Native defects and extrinsic dopants tune the …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Suppressing element inhomogeneity enables 14.9% efficiency CZTSSe solar cells

Y Li, C Cui, H Wei, Z Shao, Z Wu, S Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Kesterites, Cu2ZnSn (SxSe1− x) 4 (CZTSSe), solar cells suffer from severe open‐
circuit voltage (VOC) loss due to the numerous secondary phases and defects. The …

N‐Type Surface Design for p‐Type CZTSSe Thin Film to Attain High Efficiency

Y Sun, P Qiu, W Yu, J Li, H Guo, L Wu, H Luo… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As a low‐cost substitute that uses no expensive rare‐earth elements for the high‐efficiency
Cu (In, Ga)(S, Se) 2 solar cell, the Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) solar cell has borrowed …

Two‐Step Cooling Strategy for Synergistic Control of CuZn and SnZn Defects Enabling 12.87% Efficiency (Ag,Cu)2ZnSn(S,Se)4 Solar Cells

H Geng, M Wang, S Wang, D Kou… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abundant intrinsic defects and defect clusters in Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) solar cells
lead to severe nonradiative recombination and limited photoelectric performance. Therefore …

Tailoring the defects and carrier density for beyond 10% efficient CZTSe thin film solar cells

J Li, SY Kim, D Nam, X Liu, JH Kim, H Cheong… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
The defects states and carrier density of CZTSe absorber layers are two of the crucial factors
that decide the photovoltaic performance of CZTSe thin film solar cells. Fine tailoring the …

Understanding defects and band tailing characteristics and their impact on the device performance of Cu 2 ZnSn (S, Se) 4 solar cells

VC Karade, MP Suryawanshi, JS Jang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The main causes of the large open-circuit voltage (Voc)-deficit in kesterite-based thin-film
solar cells (TFSCs) are the high concentration of defects, related defect clusters, and poor …

Chemical approaches for electronic doping in photovoltaic materials beyond crystalline silicon

X Wei, P Zhang, T Xu, H Zhou, Y Bai… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Electronic doping is applied to tailor the electrical and optoelectronic properties of
semiconductors, which have been widely adopted in information and clean energy …