Understanding and minimizing non-radiative recombination losses in perovskite light-emitting diodes

H Cheng, Y Feng, Y Fu, Y Zheng, Y Shao… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on metal halide perovskites have shown great promise
for next-generation display technology as they offer high color purity, satisfy Rec. 2020, and …

As‐Doped Polycrystalline CdSeTe: Localized Defects, Carrier Mobility and Lifetimes, and Impact on High‐Efficiency Solar Cells

P Ščajev, M Nardone, C Reich… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The efficiency potential for single‐junction photovoltaics (PV) is described by the detailed
balance model, which requires the elimination of nonradiative recombination and perfect …

Selenium passivates grain boundaries in alloyed CdTe solar cells

T Fiducia, A Howkins, A Abbas, B Mendis… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells have achieved efficiencies of over 22%, despite having
absorber layer grain sizes less than 10 μm and hence a very high density of grain …

Identification of Recombination Losses in CdSe/CdTe Solar Cells from Spectroscopic and Microscopic Time‐Resolved Photoluminescence

D Kuciauskas, J Moseley, C Lee - Solar RRL, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the lowest‐cost and best reliability, CdTe solar cells are the leading thin‐film
photovoltaic technology. Increasing open‐circuit voltage by reducing recombination …

Radiative efficiency and charge‐carrier lifetimes and diffusion length in polycrystalline CdSeTe heterostructures

D Kuciauskas, J Moseley, P Ščajev… - physica status solidi …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
CdTe‐based photovoltaics is a rapidly developing energy technology with one of the lowest
levelized costs of electricity. But nonradiative Shockley–Read–Hall (SRH) recombination …

[HTML][HTML] Recombination velocity less than 100 cm/s at polycrystalline Al2O3/CdSeTe interfaces

D Kuciauskas, JM Kephart, J Moseley… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Reducing recombination in polycrystalline solar cells by orders of magnitude is currently one
of the greatest challenges for increasing thin-film solar cell efficiency to theoretical limits. The …

An insight into optical beam induced current microscopy: Concepts and applications

GY Zhuo, S Banik, FJ Kao, GA Ahmed… - Microscopy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Laser scanning optical beam induced current (OBIC) microscopy has become a powerful
and nondestructive alternative to other complicated methods like electron beam induced …

Impact of dopant-induced band tails on optical spectra, charge carrier transport, and dynamics in single-crystal CdTe

P Ščajev, A Mekys, L Subačius, S Stanionytė… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) semiconductors are used in thin-film photovoltaics, detectors, and
other optoelectronic applications. For all technologies, higher efficiency and sensitivity are …

Towards a CdTe solar cell efficiency promotion: the Role of ZnO: Al and CuSCN nanolayers

I Montoya De Los Santos, AA Pérez-Orozco… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
A numerical simulation is a valuable tool since it allows the optimization of both time and the
cost of experimental processes for time optimization and the cost of experimental processes …

An investigation on the photovoltaic performance of quantum dot solar cells sensitized by CdTe, CdSe and CdS having comparable size

TK Nideep, M Ramya, M Kailasnath - Superlattices and Microstructures, 2020 - Elsevier
Quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSSC) have been fabricated with CdTe, CdSe and
CdS quantum dots (QDs) of nearly similar size as the photosensitizers. The optical and …