Abstract United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals to ensure prosperity,
reduction of poverty and mitigation of climate change. Energy is a part of these goals. Today …

This paper reviews recent advances in photovoltaic devices based on nanostructured
materials and film designs, focusing on cadmium telluride (CdTe), copper zinc tin sulfide …

The demand for energy has been a global concern over the years due to the ever increasing
population which still generate electricity from non-renewable energy sources. Presently …

BiSI (indirect band gap= 1.57 eV) is a recently discovered photoelectrode material
possessing promising optical properties for use in alternative thin film solar cells. In this …

Thin films of Cu3BiS3 have been produced by conversion of stacked and co-electroplated Bi–
Cu metal precursors in the presence of elemental sulfur vapor. The roles of sulfurization …

Since the last few decades, light-absorbing materials based on CuInGaSe 2 (CIGS), CuInS 2
(CIS), and CdTe have dominated the research in thin-film solar cells. To fabricate large …

The development of improved solar energy conversion materials is critical to the growth of a
sustainable energy infrastructure in the coming years. We report the deposition of …

Copper based compound semiconductor photoelectrodes have attracted much attention
from researchers in the solar water splitting field. As a new copper based compound …

Copper bismuth sulfide, Cu3BiS3, has been prepared by a solvothermal method that relies
on precursor complexing to achieve the desired ternary chalcogenide preferentially over …

Cu3BiS3 nanoparticles were successfully synthesised by hydrothermal and solvothermal
methods using L-cysteine biomolecules as a sulphur source and complexing agent. Phase …