Binary and ternary metal oxide semiconductor thin films for effective gas sensing applications: A comprehensive review and future prospects

K Sivaperuman, A Thomas, R Thangavel… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
For a couple of decades, there is a tremendous growth in industries and technology in the
global level. Unfortunately, emerging new industries became a main reason for rising air …

From Design to Device: Challenges and Opportunities in Computational Discovery of -Type Transparent Conductors

R Woods-Robinson, M Morales-Masis, G Hautier… - PRX Energy, 2024 - APS
A high-performance p-type transparent conductor (TC) does not yet exist but could lead to
advances in a wide range of optoelectronic applications and enable new architectures for …

Discovery of the Zintl-phosphide BaCd2P2 as a long carrier lifetime and stable solar absorber

Z Yuan, D Dahliah, MR Hasan, G Kassa, A Pike… - Joule, 2024 - cell.com
Thin-film photovoltaics (PV) offers a path to decarbonize global energy production.
Unfortunately, existing thin-film solar absorbers have major issues associated with either …

Emerging earth-abundant solar absorbers

JW Choi, B Shin, P Gorai, RLZ Hoye, R Palgrave - 2022 - ACS Publications
Developing solar absorbers that are efficient, low-cost, stable, and composed of nontoxic,
Earth-abundant elements has long been the holy grail of nextgeneration photovoltaics (PV) …

Is Cu3–xP a Semiconductor, a Metal, or a Semimetal?

A Crovetto, T Unold, A Zakutayev - Chemistry of Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite the recent surge in interest in Cu3–x P for catalysis, batteries, and plasmonics, the
electronic nature of Cu3–x P remains unclear. Some studies have shown evidence of …

Low‐Temperature Synthesis of Stable CaZn2P2 Zintl Phosphide Thin Films as Candidate Top Absorbers

S Quadir, Z Yuan, GL Esparza, S Dugu… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The development of tandem photovoltaics and photoelectrochemical solar cells requires
new absorber materials with bandgaps in the range of≈ 1.5–2.3 eV, for use in the top cell …

Boron phosphide films by reactive sputtering: searching for a P‐type transparent conductor

A Crovetto, JM Adamczyk, RR Schnepf… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With an indirect band gap in the visible and a direct band gap at a much higher energy,
boron phosphide (BP) holds promise as an unconventional p‐type transparent conductor …

Crystallize It before It Diffuses: Kinetic Stabilization of Thin-Film Phosphorus-Rich Semiconductor CuP2

A Crovetto, D Kojda, F Yi, KN Heinselman… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Numerous phosphorus-rich metal phosphides containing both P–P bonds and metal–P
bonds are known from the solid-state chemistry literature. A method to grow these materials …

Phosphosulfide semiconductors for optoelectronics and solar energy conversion

LA Mittmann, A Crovetto - Journal of Physics: Materials, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Inorganic phosphosulfides—materials containing phosphorus, sulfur, and at least one metal—
are a vast and chemically-versatile family of materials. Benefiting from a wide range of …

Simulation and characterization of cation disorder in

JJ Cordell, L Pucurimay, RR Schnepf… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Springer
New optoelectronic materials are needed for improving the efficiency and reliability of
devices such as solar cells. Cation ordering presents one means of controlling …