Accelerating the experimental cycle for new materials development is vital for addressing the grand energy challenges of the 21 st century. We fabricate and characterize 75 unique …
T Ablekim, JN Duenow, X Zheng, H Moutinho… - ACS Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
CdTe-based solar cells exhibiting 19% power conversion efficiency were produced using widely available thermal evaporation deposition of the absorber layers on SnO2-coated …
The published external quantum efficiency data of the world-record CdTe solar cell suggests that the device uses bandgap engineering, most likely with a CdTe x Se1− x alloy layer to …
M Lingg, S Buecheler, AN Tiwari - Coatings, 2019 - mdpi.com
Recent improvements in CdTe thin film solar cells have been achieved by using CdTe1− x Se x as a part of the absorber layer. This review summarizes the published literature …
Alloying is a versatile tool for engineering the optical and electronic properties of materials. Here, we explore the use of CdTe and CdSe nanocrystals in developing sintered CdSe x …
M Lingg, A Spescha, SG Haass, R Carron… - … and technology of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The performance improvement of conventional CdTe solar cells is mainly limited by doping concentration and minority carrier life time. Alloying CdTe with an isovalent element …
J Yang, SH Wei - Chinese Physics B, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
CdTe is one of the leading materials for low cost, high efficiency thin-film solar cells with a nearly ideal band gap of 1.48 eV. However, its solar to electricity power conversion …
BB Dumre, D Gall, SV Khare - Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 2021 - Elsevier
We have studied the disordered rocksalt, orthorhombic, and disordered wurtzite phases of the ternary nitride semiconductor MgSnN 2 by first-principles methods using density …
Compound semiconductor alloys such as In x Ga 1− x As, GaAs x P 1− x, or CuIn x Ga 1− x Se 2 are increasingly employed in numerous electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic …