Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide alloys: preparation, characterization and applications

LM Xie - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Engineering electronic structure of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials is of great
importance to their potential applications. In comparison to numerous other approaches …

Accelerated development of perovskite-inspired materials via high-throughput synthesis and machine-learning diagnosis

S Sun, NTP Hartono, ZD Ren, F Oviedo, AM Buscemi… - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
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 …

Thin-film solar cells with 19% efficiency by thermal evaporation of CdSe and CdTe

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 …

Structural and compositional dependence of the CdTexSe1−x alloy layer photoactivity in CdTe-based solar cells

JD Poplawsky, W Guo, N Paudel, A Ng, K More… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

Review of CdTe1−xSex Thin Films in Solar Cell Applications

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 …

Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Sintered CdSexTe1–x Nanocrystal Solar Cells

BI MacDonald, A Martucci, S Rubanov, SE Watkins… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
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 …

Structural and electronic properties of CdTe1-xSex films and their application in solar cells

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 …

First-principles study of the band gap tuning and doping control in CdSexTe1− x alloy for high efficiency solar cell

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 …

Stability, and electronic and optical properties of ternary nitride phases of MgSnN2: A first-principles study

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: From atomic-scale structure to bandgap bowing

CS Schnohr - Applied physics reviews, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
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 …