Progress and prospects of CZTSSe/CdS interface engineering to combat high open-circuit voltage deficit of kesterite photovoltaics: a critical review

K Kaur, M Kumar - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
CZTSSe solar cells are considered to be potential and cost-effective alternative solutions to
mature photovoltaic technology for meeting future energy demands. However, the current …

A progress review on the modification of CZTS (e)-based thin-film solar cells

HS Nugroho, G Refantero, NLW Septiani… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing demand for energy in recent decades due to rapid industrial and population
growth has resulted in a heavy dependence on non-renewable energy which leads to …

Flexible, environmentally-acceptable and long-durable-energy-efficient novel WS 2–polyacrylamide MOFs for high-performance photodetectors

A Verma, P Chaudhary, RK Tripathi, BC Yadav - Materials Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, two-dimensional WS2–polyacrylamide metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are
prepared via an energy-efficient solvent-free frontal polymerization method and further used …

The effect of Ag plasmonic nanoparticles on the efficiency of CZTS solar cell: an experimental investigation and numerical modelling

S Yiğit Gezgin, HŞ Kiliç - Indian Journal of Physics, 2023 - Springer
Ag plasmonic nanoparticles have been produced depending on laser pulse energy by
applying pulsed laser deposition technique. Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) …

Investigating the role of oxygen and related defects in the self-biased and moderate-biased performance of β-Ga2O3 solar-blind photodetectors

K Arora, N Kumar, P Vashishtha… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract High-performance, low-cost, self-powered deep-ultraviolet photodetectors (DUV-
PDs) are essential for military and civil applications. β-Ga 2 O 3 stands alone among all the …

Superflexible, self-biased, high-voltage-stable, and seal-packed office-paper based gallium-oxide photodetector

K Arora, K Kaur, M Kumar - ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2021 - ACS Publications
This research presents a solar-blind (UVC) office paper-based photodetector that is self-
biased, superflexible, nonwettable, high-performance, and high-voltage stable. In contrast to …

9.63% efficient flexible Cu 2 ZnSn (S, Se) 4 solar cells fabricated via scalable doctor-blading under ambient conditions

H Xu, S Ge, W Yang, SN Khan, Y Huang… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The application of doctor-blading for flexible solar cells is considerably attractive due to its
potential upscaling feasibility via a roll-to-roll process. Herein, we report the fabrication of …

Nanoscale charge transport and local surface potential distribution to probe the defect passivation in Cr-substituted earth abundant CZTS absorber layer

K Kaur, AH Chowdhury, Q Qiao, M Kumar - Journal of Alloys and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The non-stochiometric deviations in CZTS often results in certain detrimental point defects
that act as trap centers causing non-radiative recombination and potential fluctuations …

Interfacial study of vertically aligned n-type MoS2 flakes heterojunction with p-type Cu-Zn-Sn-S for self-powered, fast and high performance broadband photodetector

AV Agrawal, K Kaur, M Kumar - Applied Surface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The pn junction is an influential trait for efficient charge transport in electronic and
optoelectronic devices. Demonstrating pn junction using 2D TMDCs is inescapable to …

Nanoscale control of grain boundary potential barrier, dopant density and filled trap state density for higher efficiency perovskite solar cells

B Bahrami, S Mabrouk, N Adhikari, H Elbohy… - InfoMat, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, grain boundary (GB) potential barrier (Δφ GB), dopant density (Pnet), and filled
trap state density (PGB, trap) were manipulated at the nanoscale by exposing the fabricated …