[HTML][HTML] Chalcopyrite compound semiconductors for thin film solar cells

S Siebentritt - Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Chalcopyrite semiconductors are used in thin film solar cells with the highest efficiencies, in
particular for flexible solar cells. Recent progress has been made possible by an alkali …

Compound semiconductor alloys: From atomic-scale structure to bandgap bowing

CS Schnohr - Applied physics reviews, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Compound semiconductor alloys such as In x Ga 1− x As, GaAs x P 1− x, or CuIn x Ga 1− x
Se 2 are increasingly employed in numerous electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic …

Development of an efficient double absorber CIGSSe/perovskite solar cell with the combination of experimental data of Mg-doped CeO2 buffer layer

R Kumar, A Kumar - Optical Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we developed a high-efficiency CIGSSe/perovskite photovoltaic cell with a
combination of Mg-doped CeO 2 buffer layer nanomaterials. Initially, Mg-doped CeO 2 …

Composition-dependent optical band bowing, vibrational, and photochemical behavior of aqueous glutathione-capped (Cu, Ag)–In–S quantum dots

O Raievska, O Stroyuk, Y Azhniuk… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A mild aqueous synthesis of colloidal 2–4 nm (Cu, Ag)–In–S (CAIS) quantum dots (QDs)
stabilized by surface metal complexes with glutathione was introduced. Linear variations of …

Local bonding influence on the band edge and band gap formation in quaternary chalcopyrites

A Miglio, CP Heinrich, W Tremel, G Hautier… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Quaternary chalcopyrites have shown to exhibit tunable band gaps with changing anion
composition. Inspired by these observations, the underlying structural and electronic …

Efficiency improvement of ZnMgO/CIGSSe heterojunction solar cell by using double graded Cu2O ER-HTL and CeMgO2 HR-ETL materials

R Kumar, A Kumar - Optical Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The performance of the ZnMgO/CIGSSe heterojunction solar cell is addressed in this article.
Different structures are designed using different materials to improve their parameters. The …

Radiation resistant chalcopyrite CIGS solar cells: proton damage shielding with Cs treatment and defect healing via heat-light soaking

TY Lin, CF Hsieh, A Kanai, T Yashiro… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Cu (In, Ga) Se2 (CIGS) solar cells are recognized as next-generation space technology due
to their flexibility, lightweight nature, and excellent environmental stability. However …

Evaluation of defect formation in chalcopyrite compounds under Cu-poor conditions by advanced structural and vibrational analyses

M Guc, E Bailo, R Fonoll-Rubio, F Atlan, M Placidi… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Cu-poor compositions are key for obtaining high efficiency Cu (In, Ga) Se 2 (CIGSe) devices.
These conditions lead to Cu deficit accommodation mechanisms like the formation of Cu …

Chemical states and local structure in Cu-deficient Cu x InSe∼ 2 thin films: insights into engineering and bandgap narrowing

AY Mohamed, BG Han, H Jang, JO Jeon… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The Cu-deficient CuxInSe∼ 2 (x> 0.3) phase can be stabilized as a thin film. A uniform Cu-
deficient composition with a chalcopyrite structure was obtained by the precision …

Bandgap extraction from quantum efficiency spectra of Cu (In, Ga) Se2 solar cells with varied grading profile and diffusion length

M Richter, MS Hammer, T Sonnet, J Parisi - Thin Solid Films, 2017 - Elsevier
Quantum efficiency measurements on Cu (In, Ga) Se 2 (CIGS) solar cells are widely used as
a non-destructive and easy to apply method to extract the bandgap of the CIGS absorber …