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 …

Charge transfer kinetics in halide perovskites: on the constraints of time-resolved spectroscopy measurements

X Chen, PV Kamat, C Janáky, GF Samu - ACS Energy Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Understanding photophysical processes in lead halide perovskites is an important aspect of
optimizing the performance of optoelectronic devices. The determination of exact charge …

High-concentration silver alloying and steep back-contact gallium grading enabling copper indium gallium selenide solar cell with 23.6% efficiency

J Keller, K Kiselman, O Donzel-Gargand, NM Martin… - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
Chalcopyrite-based solar cells have reached an efficiency of 23.35%, yet further
improvements have been challenging. Here we present a 23.64% certified efficiency for a …

Effect of sub-bandgap defects on radiative and non-radiative open-circuit voltage losses in perovskite solar cells

GJW Aalbers, TPA van der Pol, K Datta… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The efficiency of perovskite solar cells is affected by open-circuit voltage losses due to
radiative and non-radiative charge recombination. When estimated using sensitive …

Photoluminescence assessment of materials for solar cell absorbers

S Siebentritt, U Rau, S Gharabeiki, TP Weiss… - Faraday …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Absolute photoluminescence measurements present a tool to predict the quality of
photovoltaic absorber materials before finishing the solar cells. Quasi Fermi level splitting …

Effect of Interfacial Contamination on the Charge Redistribution and Photoluminescence of the MoSe2/Au Heterostructure: Implications for Photodevices

BR Borodin, FA Benimetskiy, VY Davydov… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are promising for next-generation two-dimensional
electronic and optoelectronic devices. The performance of such devices is completely …

Hyperspectral Photoluminescence Imaging for Spatially Resolved Determination of Electrical Parameters of Laser‐Patterned Perovskite Solar Cells

C Schultz, M Fenske, LI Dion-Bertrand, G Gélinas… - Solar …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Absolute calibrated hyperspectral photoluminescence (PL) imaging is utilized to access, in a
simple and fast way, the spatial distribution of relevant solar cell parameters such as quasi …

Organic Passivation of Deep Defects in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Film for Geometry-Simplified Compound Solar Cells

J Chen, X Chang, J Guo, Q Gao, X Zhang, C Liu… - Research, 2023 - spj.science.org
Diverse defects in copper indium gallium diselenide solar cells cause nonradiative
recombination losses and impair device performance. Here, an organic passivation scheme …

Diode factor in solar cells with metastable defects and Back contact recombination

T Wang, F Ehre, TP Weiss, B Veith‐Wolf… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To achieve a high fill factor, a small diode factor close to 1 is essential. The optical diode
factor determined by photoluminescence is the diode factor from the neutral zone of the …

2D-Self-Assembled Organic Materials in Undoped Hole Transport Bilayers for Efficient Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells

IG Sonsona, M Carrera, M Más-Montoya… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Interfaces between photoactive perovskite layer and selective contacts play a key role in the
performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The properties of the interface can be modified …