Defect engineering in multinary earth‐abundant chalcogenide photovoltaic materials

D Shin, B Saparov, DB Mitzi - Advanced Energy Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Application of zinc‐blende‐related chalcogenide absorbers such as CdTe and Cu (In, Ga)
Se2 (CIGSe) has enabled remarkable advancement in laboratory‐and commercial‐scale …

The current status and future prospects of kesterite solar cells: a brief review

X Liu, Y Feng, H Cui, F Liu, X Hao… - Progress in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Kesterite‐based solar cells are attracting considerable attention in recent years, owing to the
reduced toxicity and greater abundance of their constituent elements. In this brief review, we …

Point defects, compositional fluctuations, and secondary phases in non-stoichiometric kesterites

S Schorr, G Gurieva, M Guc… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The efficiency of kesterite-based solar cells is limited by various non-ideal recombination
paths, amongst others by a high density of defect states and by the presence of binary or …

Multiwavelength excitation Raman scattering study of polycrystalline kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films

M Dimitrievska, A Fairbrother, X Fontané… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
This work presents a complete analysis of all Raman active modes of Cu 2 ZnSnS 4
measuring with six different excitation wavelengths from near infrared to ultraviolet …

The band gap of Cu2ZnSnSe4: Effect of order-disorder

G Rey, A Redinger, J Sendler, TP Weiss… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The order-disorder transition in kesterite Cu 2 ZnSnSe 4 (CZTSe), an interesting material for
solar cell, has been investigated by spectrophotometry, photoluminescence (PL), and …

Calculation of the lattice dynamics and Raman spectra of copper zinc tin chalcogenides and comparison to experiments

A Khare, B Himmetoglu, M Johnson, DJ Norris… - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The electronic structure, lattice dynamics, and Raman spectra of the kesterite, stannite, and
pre-mixed Cu-Au (PMCA) structures of Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS) and Cu 2 ZnSnSe 4 (CZTSe) …

Vibrational properties of stannite and kesterite type compounds: Raman scattering analysis of Cu2 (Fe, Zn) SnS4

X Fontané, V Izquierdo-Roca, E Saucedo… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2012 - Elsevier
This work reports the analysis of the vibrational properties of stannite–kesterite Cu 2 (Fe, Zn)
SnS 4 compounds that has been performed by Raman scattering measurements. The …

An electrochemical biosensor based on novel butylamine capped CZTS nanoparticles immobilized by uricase for uric acid detection

S Jain, S Verma, SP Singh, SN Sharma - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Quaternary chalcopyrite, ie, Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS) nanoparticles films have been
proposed as a novel matrix system for enzyme-based electrochemical biosensors providing …

The vibrational properties study of kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 single crystals by using polarization dependent Raman spectroscopy

D Dumcenco, YS Huang - Optical Materials, 2013 - Elsevier
This work reports a study of the vibrational properties of kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) single
crystals by using polarization-dependent Raman scattering measurements. The CZTS …

Suppressed Deep Traps and Bandgap Fluctuations in Cu2CdSnS4 Solar Cells with ≈8% Efficiency

S Hadke, S Levcenko, G Sai Gautam… - Advanced Energy …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The identification of performance‐limiting factors is a crucial step in the development of solar
cell technologies. Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4‐based solar cells have shown promising power …