Defect engineering in multinary earth‐abundant chalcogenide photovoltaic materials

D Shin, B Saparov, DB Mitzi - Advanced Energy Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Application of zinc‐blende‐related chalcogenide absorbers such as CdTe and Cu (In, Ga)
Se2 (CIGSe) has enabled remarkable advancement in laboratory‐and commercial‐scale …

Cation substitution in earth‐abundant kesterite photovoltaic materials

J Li, D Wang, X Li, Y Zeng, Y Zhang - Advanced Science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As a promising candidate for low‐cost and environmentally friendly thin‐film photovoltaics,
the emerging kesterite‐based Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) solar cells have experienced …

Over 10% Efficient Cu2CdSnS4 Solar Cells Fabricated from Optimized Sulfurization

P Fan, J Lin, J Hu, Z Yu, Y Zhao, S Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
At present, Kesterite‐based thin‐film solar cells, such as Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells, involve
serious band‐tailed states, which leads to low open‐circuit voltage, thereby hindering the …

Controlling Selenization Equilibrium Enables High-Quality Kesterite Absorbers for Efficient Solar Cells

X Xu, J Zhou, K Yin, J Wang, L Lou, M Jiao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Kesterite Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 is considered one of the most competitive photovoltaic
materials due to its earth-abundant and nontoxic constituent elements, environmental …

Is the Cu/Zn disorder the main culprit for the voltage deficit in kesterite solar cells?

S Bourdais, C Choné, B Delatouche… - Advanced Energy …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Photovoltaic thin film solar cells based on kesterite Cu2ZnSn (Sx, Se1–x) 4 compounds
(CZTSSe) have reached> 12% sunlight‐to‐electricity conversion efficiency. This is still far …

Engineering of interface band bending and defects elimination via a Ag-graded active layer for efficient (Cu, Ag) 2 ZnSn (S, Se) 4 solar cells

YF Qi, DX Kou, WH Zhou, ZJ Zhou, QW Tian… - Energy & …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Although the substitution of Cu by Ag to suppress CuZn defects offers several advantages in
overcoming the large open-circuit voltage (Voc) deficit for Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) …

Solar light harvesting with multinary metal chalcogenide nanocrystals

O Stroyuk, A Raevskaya, N Gaponik - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The paper reviews the state of the art in the synthesis of multinary (ternary, quaternary and
more complex) metal chalcogenide nanocrystals (NCs) and their applications as a light …

Photovoltaic Materials and Devices Based on the Alloyed Kesterite Absorber (AgxCu1–x)2ZnSnSe4

T Gershon, YS Lee, P Antunez… - Advanced Energy …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The photovoltaic absorber Cu2ZnSn (SxSe1–x) 4 (CZTSSe) has attracted interest in recent
years due to the earth‐abundance of its constituents and the realization of high performance …

Defect Engineering in Earth‐Abundant Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 Photovoltaic Materials via Ga3+‐Doping for over 12% Efficient Solar Cells

Y Du, S Wang, Q Tian, Y Zhao, X Chang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The efficiency of earth‐abundant Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) solar cells is considerably
lower than the Shockley–Queisser limit. One of the main reasons for this is the presence of …

Doping and alloying of kesterites

YE Romanyuk, SG Haass, S Giraldo… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Attempts to improve the efficiency of kesterite solar cells by changing the intrinsic
stoichiometry have not helped to boost the device efficiency beyond the current record of …