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 …

High-efficiency perovskite solar cells

JY Kim, JW Lee, HS Jung, H Shin, NG Park - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
With rapid progress in a power conversion efficiency (PCE) to reach 25%, metal halide
perovskite-based solar cells became a game-changer in a photovoltaic performance race …

Layer-structured anisotropic metal chalcogenides: recent advances in synthesis, modulation, and applications

A Giri, G Park, U Jeong - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The unique electronic and catalytic properties emerging from low symmetry anisotropic (1D
and 2D) metal chalcogenides (MCs) have generated tremendous interest for use in next …

Unveiling microscopic carrier loss mechanisms in 12% efficient Cu2ZnSnSe4 solar cells

J Li, J Huang, F Ma, H Sun, J Cong, K Privat… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding carrier loss mechanisms at microscopic regions is imperative for the
development of high-performance polycrystalline inorganic thin-film solar cells. Despite the …

Recombination in perovskite solar cells: significance of grain boundaries, interface traps, and defect ions

TS Sherkar, C Momblona, L Gil-Escrig, J Avila… - ACS energy …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Trap-assisted recombination, despite being lower as compared with traditional inorganic
solar cells, is still the dominant recombination mechanism in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) …

Applications of phosphorene and black phosphorus in energy conversion and storage devices

J Pang, A Bachmatiuk, Y Yin… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The successful isolation of phosphorene (atomic layer thick black phosphorus) in 2014 has
currently aroused the interest of 2D material researchers. In this review, first, the …

The role of grain boundaries in perovskite solar cells

AF Castro‐Méndez, J Hidalgo… - Advanced Energy …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Grain boundaries (GBs) play an important role in most polycrystalline solar cells. In
perovskite solar cells, the research community is just starting to understand their effects on …

Thin-film Sb2Se3 photovoltaics with oriented one-dimensional ribbons and benign grain boundaries

Y Zhou, L Wang, S Chen, S Qin, X Liu, J Chen… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Solar cells based on inorganic absorbers, such as Si, GaAs, CdTe and Cu (In, Ga) Se2,
permit a high device efficiency and stability. The crystals' three-dimensional structure means …

Halide perovskite materials for solar cells: a theoretical review

WJ Yin, JH Yang, J Kang, Y Yan, SH Wei - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Halide perovskites have recently emerged as promising materials for low-cost, high-
efficiency solar cells. The efficiency of perovskite-based solar cells has increased rapidly …

Point defect engineering in thin-film solar cells

JS Park, S Kim, Z Xie, A Walsh - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Control of defect processes in photovoltaic materials is essential for realizing high-efficiency
solar cells and related optoelectronic devices. Native defects and extrinsic dopants tune the …