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 …

Kësterite thin films for photovoltaics: a review

S Delbos - EPJ Photovoltaics, 2012 - epjpv.epj.org
In the years to come, electricity production is bound to increase, and Cu 2 ZnSn (S, Se) 4
(CZTS) compounds, due to their suitability to thin-film solar cells, could be a means to fulfill …

[图书][B] Earth-abundant materials for solar cells: Cu2-II-IV-VI4 semiconductors

S Adachi - 2015 - books.google.com
Systematically describes the physical and materials properties of copper-based quaternary
chalcogenide semiconductor materials, enabling their potential for photovoltaic device …

Cu2ZnSnS4 photovoltaic cell with improved efficiency fabricated by high‐temperature annealing after CdS buffer‐layer deposition

S Tajima, M Umehara, M Hasegawa… - Progress in …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
To improve the photovoltaic properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) cells, we investigated the
effect of both the thickness of the deposited CdS layers and the post‐annealing temperature …

Deep electron traps and origin of -type conductivity in the earth-abundant solar-cell material CuZnSnS

D Han, YY Sun, J Bang, YY Zhang, HB Sun, XB Li… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
Using hybrid functional calculation, we identify the key intrinsic defects in Cu 2 ZnSnS 4
(CZTS), an important earth-abundant solar-cell material. The Sn-on-Zn antisite and the …

Effects of sodium on electrical properties in Cu2ZnSnS4 single crystal

A Nagaoka, H Miyake, T Taniyama, K Kakimoto… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We have studied the effect of sodium on the electrical properties of Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS)
single crystal by using temperature dependence of Hall effect measurement. The sodium …

Preparation of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) sputtering target and its application to the fabrication of CZTS thin-film solar cells

YP Lin, YF Chi, TE Hsieh, YC Chen… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The CuS, ZnS and SnS 2 raw powders were adopted as the starting materials for
preparing the 2-inch Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS) sputtering target. The powders were mixed at …

Free-to-bound recombination in near stoichiometric CuZnSnS single crystals

S Levcenko, VE Tezlevan, E Arushanov, S Schorr… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 single crystals prepared by the chemical vapor transport technique were
investigated by x-ray diffraction, chemical microprobe analysis, and Raman and …

Band gap change induced by defect complexes in Cu2ZnSnS4

D Huang, C Persson - Thin Solid Films, 2013 - Elsevier
Understanding the impact on the electronic and optical properties of kesterite Cu2ZnSn (S,
Se) 4 due to the presence of native defects is crucial for designing and manufacturing …

Environmentally friendly thermoelectric sulphide Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 single crystals achieving a 1.6 dimensionless figure of merit ZT

A Nagaoka, K Yoshino, T Masuda, TD Sparks… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectrics (TEs) are an important class of technology that harvest electric power
directly from heat sources. When designing both high performance and environmentally …