Effect of the conduction band offset on interfacial recombination behavior of the planar perovskite solar cells

C Ding, Y Zhang, F Liu, Y Kitabatake, S Hayase… - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The effects of the conduction band offset (CBO) between the electron selective layer (ESL)
and the perovskite layer in planar-heterojunction perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have been …

Towards high efficiency Cd-Free Sb2Se3 solar cells by the band alignment optimization

I Gharibshahian, AA Orouji, S Sharbati - Solar energy materials and solar …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigated the effect of Zn 1-y Mg y O/ZnO 1-x S x double buffer layers on
the antimony selenide (Sb 2 Se 3) solar cells performance. Our results show that the …

[HTML][HTML] Optoelectronic enhancement of ZnO/p-Si Schottky barrier photodiodes by (Sn, Ti) co-doping

K Mensah-Darkwa, RO Ocaya, AG Al-Sehemi… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, metal–semiconductor–metal (MSM) ZnO-based Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs)
were fabricated on the basis of titanium-doped tin–zinc oxide (SZT) films by sol–gel spin …

A modeling study on utilizing SnS2 as the buffer layer of CZT (S, Se) solar cells

M Haghighi, M Minbashi, N Taghavinia, DH Kim… - Solar Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
CdS is conventionally used as the n-type buffer layer in chalcopyrite (CIG (S, Se)) and
Kesterite (CZT (S, Se)) solar cells. CdS is toxic and there are wide attempts to find …

ZnO/Si heterojunction solar cell fabricated by atomic layer deposition and hydrothermal methods

R Pietruszka, BS Witkowski, E Zielony, K Gwozdz… - Solar Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Currently, the first generation of silicon solar cells is dominating the photovoltaic market.
Silicon cells are produced by various methods, which employ either crystalline or multi …

Systematic survey of suitable buffer and high resistive window layer materials in CuIn1− xGaxSe2 solar cells by numerical simulations

A Bauer, S Sharbati, M Powalla - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2017 - Elsevier
This work investigates the impact of opto-electronical buffer (b) and high resistive window
layer (w) properties, ie band gap E g (b, w) and electron affinity χ e (b, w), on the device …

Improved efficiency of n-ZnO/p-Si based photovoltaic cells by band offset engineering

R Pietruszka, R Schifano, TA Krajewski… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
The theoretical approach towards improving the photovoltaic response of n-ZnO/p-Si
heterojunctions proposed by Knutsen et al.[Phys. Status Solidi A 210 (2013) 585–588] has …

Bias and illumination-dependent room temperature negative differential conductance in Ni-doped ZnO/p-Si Schottky photodiodes for quantum optics applications

RO Ocaya, Y Orman, AG Al-Sehemi, A Dere… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
In this article, evidence for the existence of illumination and bias-dependent negative
differential conductance (NDC) in Ni-doped Al/ZnO/p-Si Schottky diodes, and the possible …

Modelling, simulation, optimization of Si/ZnO and Si/ZnMgO heterojunction solar cells

S Vallisree, R Thangavel… - Materials Research …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Currently, crystalline and polycrystalline silicon wafer based solar cells dominate the
photovoltaic market, which employs expensive manufacturing processes. Zinc oxide is one …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of solar cell simulation tools

A Kowsar, SC Debnath, M Shafayet-Ul-Islam… - Solar Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solar cell simulation software offers an intuitive platform enabling researchers to efficiently
model, simulate, analyze, and optimize photovoltaic devices and accelerate desired …