CdTe solar cells: technology, operation and reliability

M Barbato, E Artegiani, M Bertoncello… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last 20 years, the technological improvements of CdTe solar cell have been
impressive, and today the performance of these cells is comparable with that of silicon cells …

20%-efficient polycrystalline Cd (Se, Te) thin-film solar cells with compositional gradient near the front junction

DB Li, SS Bista, RA Awni, S Neupane… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Bandgap gradient is a proven approach for improving the open-circuit voltages (VOCs) in
Cu (In, Ga) Se2 and Cu (Zn, Sn) Se2 thin-film solar cells, but has not been realized in Cd …

Al-diffused zno transparent conducting oxide thin films for cadmium telluride superstrate solar cells: A comprehensive study

R Paul, S Arulkumar, K Jenifer, S Parthiban - Journal of Electronic …, 2023 - Springer
Fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) or tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) thin films are widely used
and commercialized as the transparent conducting oxide window layer in conventional …

Properties of MZO/ceramic and MZO/glass thin layers based on the substrate's quality

D Bouras, M Fellah, R Barille, M Abdul Samad… - Optical and Quantum …, 2024 - Springer
To evaluate the role played by the substrates on the change and the actual difference of the
studied samples on their structural, morphological, optical and photocatalytic properties, thin …

Indium gallium oxide emitters for high-efficiency CdTe-based solar cells

MK Jamarkattel, AB Phillips, I Subedi… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
There are limited choices for front-surface, electron-selective contacts (emitters) for CdTe
solar cells, thus hindering scientific and technical development. Here we investigate the …

High-efficiency CdTe-based thin-film solar cells with unltrathin CdS: O window layer and processes with post annealing

A Hu, J Zhou, P Zhong, X Qin, M Zhang, Y Jiang, X Wu… - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The thickness of the CdS: O window layer plays an important role in CdTe-based thin-film
solar cell performance. Normally with thinner CdS: O layer, the cells' short wavelength …

Interrelation of the CdTe grain size, postgrowth processing, and window layer selection on solar cell performance

TP Shalvey, H Bagshaw, JD Major - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent improvements to the CdTe solar cell device structure have focused on replacing the
CdS window layer with a more transparent material to reduce parasitic absorption and …

What Can Solar Cells Learn from ?

CH Don, TP Shalvey, JD Major - PRX Energy, 2023 - APS
This article provides an examination of the long-term potential of antimony selenide (Sb 2 Se
3) as a leading photovoltaic absorber by considering lessons learned from the …

Electrical potential investigation of reversible metastability and irreversible degradation of CdTe solar cells

CS Jiang, D Albin, M Nardone, KJ Howard… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we report on the stability of CdTe devices with a structure of
TCO/MZO/CdSeTe/CdTe/back-contact. The device showed reversible transitions between …

Robust passivation of CdSeTe based solar cells using reactively sputtered magnesium zinc oxide

G Yeung, C Reich, A Onno, A Bothwell… - Solar energy materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Magnesium zinc oxide (MZO, Mg x Zn 1-x O) is a leading emitter for CdTe-based solar cells
due to its transparency and the ability to tune its conduction band offset with the absorber …