Physics and chemistry of CdTe/CdS thin film heterojunction photovoltaic devices: fundamental and critical aspects

SG Kumar, KSRK Rao - Energy & Environmental Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Among the armoury of photovoltaic materials, thin film heterojunction photovoltaics continue
to be a promising candidate for solar energy conversion delivering a vast scope in terms of …

A novel CdTe ink-assisted direct synthesis of CdTe thin films for the solution-processed CdTe solar cells

MF Rahman, J Hossain, A Kuddus, S Tabassum… - Journal of materials …, 2020 - Springer
The CdTe ink in thiol-amine cosolvents from CdTe powder has been successfully prepared
via Triton X-100 surfactant at 50° C. The CdTe thin films have been synthesized and …

Structural and optical properties of CdTe thin films deposited using RF magnetron sputtering

R Kulkarni, S Rondiya, A Pawbake, R Waykar… - Energy Procedia, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, we have studied the influence of RF power on structural and optical properties
of CdTe thin films deposited by indigenously designed locally fabricated RF magnetron …

Cu-doping effects on the physical properties of cadmium sulfide thin films

NA Shah, RR Sagar, W Mahmood… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Thin films of CdS were fabricated by close spaced sublimation technique under vacuum of∼
10− 5 mbar at a source temperature of 550° C for various periods of time. These as …

Photoelectric properties of highly conductive samarium-doped cadmium telluride thin films for photovoltaic applications

MF Al-Kuhaili - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) is one of the most important materials for photovoltaic
applications. CdTe-based solar cells have significantly high light-to-current conversion …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancement in microstructural and optoelectrical properties of thermally evaporated CdTe films for solar cells

S Chander, MS Dhaka - Results in physics, 2018 - Elsevier
The optimization of microstructural and optoelectrical properties of a thin layer is an
important step prior device fabrication process, so an enhancement in these properties of …

Characterization of vacuum evaporated CdTe thin films prepared at ambient temperature

SJ Ikhmayies, RN Ahmad-Bitar - Materials science in semiconductor …, 2013 - Elsevier
Polycrystalline cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin films were prepared by vacuum evaporation
on glass substrates at ambient temperature. X-ray diffraction pattern (XRD) showed that the …

Ag doped ZnTe films prepared by closed space sublimation and an ion exchange process

AKS Aqili, AJ Saleh, Z Ali, S Al-Omari - Journal of alloys and compounds, 2012 - Elsevier
ZnTe thin films were deposited by closed space sublimation (CSS) technique on amorphous
glass substrate. The deposited films were immersed in AgNO3 solution for different time …

Electrodeposition of a PbTe/CdTe superlattice by electrochemical atomic layer deposition (E-ALD)

D Banga, B Perdue, J Stickney - Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
A PbTe/CdTe superlattice was deposited using the electrochemical form of atomic layer
deposition (E-ALD). The E-ALD program consisted of 15 periods of 5 cycles of CdTe and 15 …

Influence of plasma parameters and substrate temperature on the structural and optical properties of CdTe thin films deposited on glass by laser ablation

JG Quiñones-Galván, E Camps… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
In the pulsed laser deposition of thin films, plasma parameters such as energy and density of
ions play an important role in the properties of materials. In the present work, cadmium …