CdTe-based thin film photovoltaics: Recent advances, current challenges and future prospects

MA Scarpulla, B McCandless, AB Phillips, Y Yan… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cadmium telluride (CdTe)-based cells have emerged as the leading commercialized thin
film photovoltaic technology and has intrinsically better temperature coefficients, energy …

Flexible CIGS, CdTe and a-Si: H based thin film solar cells: A review

J Ramanujam, DM Bishop, TK Todorov… - Progress in Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Flexible thin film solar cells such as CIGS, CdTe, and a-Si: H have received worldwide
attention. Until now, Si solar cells dominate the photovoltaic market. Its production cost is a …

A near-infrared colloidal quantum dot imager with monolithically integrated readout circuitry

J Liu, P Liu, D Chen, T Shi, X Qu, L Chen, T Wu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Imagers that operate in the near-infrared region (wavelengths of 0.7–1.4 µm) are of use in
applications such as material sorting, machine vision and autonomous driving. However …

CdTe-based thin film solar cells: past, present and future

A Romeo, E Artegiani - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
CdTe is a very robust and chemically stable material and for this reason its related solar cell
thin film photovoltaic technology is now the only thin film technology in the first 10 top …

Roadmap on energy harvesting materials

V Pecunia, SRP Silva, JD Phillips… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Ambient energy harvesting has great potential to contribute to sustainable development and
address growing environmental challenges. Converting waste energy from energy-intensive …

Recent progress towards photovoltaics' circular economy

MKH Rabaia, C Semeraro, AG Olabi - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Massive expansions in the global population and the global digitalization throughout the
industrial revolution are causing energy security issues that are no longer environmentally …

Research progress in doped absorber layer of CdTe solar cells

Y Wang, G Wang, Y Zhou, Q Xie, J Chen… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
CdTe thin film solar cell, as an outstanding representative of the second-generation solar
cells, has been produced and applied on a large scale. However, due to the low …

Low-temperature and effective ex situ group V doping for efficient polycrystalline CdSeTe solar cells

DB Li, C Yao, SN Vijayaraghavan, RA Awni… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
CdTe solar cell technology is one of the lowest-cost methods of generating electricity in the
solar industry, benefiting from fast CdTe absorber deposition, CdCl2 treatment and Cu …

CdTe solar cells: technology, operation and reliability

M Barbato, E Artegiani, M Bertoncello… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last 20 years, the technological improvements of CdTe solar cell have been
impressive, and today the performance of these cells is comparable with that of silicon cells …

Back contacts materials used in thin film CdTe solar cells—A review

RS Hall, D Lamb, SJC Irvine - Energy Science & Engineering, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
CdTe is the leading commercial thin film photovoltaic technology with current record
laboratory efficiency (22.1%). However, there is much potential for progress toward the …