Cadmium telluride (CdTe)-based cells have emerged as the leading commercialized thin
film photovoltaic technology and has intrinsically better temperature coefficients, energy …

The Urbach energy is an expression of the static and dynamic disorder in a semiconductor
and is directly accessible via optical characterization techniques. The strength of this metric …

Chalcogenide semiconductors offer excellent optoelectronic properties for their use in solar
cells, exemplified by the commercialization of Cu (In, Ga) Se2-and CdTe-based photovoltaic …

Efficient charge‐carrier transport is critical to the success of emergent semiconductors in
photovoltaic applications. So far, disorder has been considered detrimental for charge …

Understanding carrier loss mechanisms at microscopic regions is imperative for the
development of high-performance polycrystalline inorganic thin-film solar cells. Despite the …

BACKGROUND Photovoltaics, which directly convert solar energy into electricity, offer a
practical and sustainable solution to the challenge of meeting the increasing global energy …

The voltage loss, determined by the difference between the optical gap (Eg) and the open‐
circuit voltage (VOC), is one of the most important parameters determining the performance …

Halide perovskite semiconductors have risen to prominence in photovoltaics and light‐
emitting diodes (LEDs), but traditional oxide perovskites, which overcome the stability …

A consistent mathematical approach is presented that connects the Shockley-Queisser (SQ)
theory to the analysis of real-world devices. We demonstrate that the external photovoltaic …

Open‐circuit voltages of lead‐halide perovskite solar cells are improving rapidly and are
approaching the thermodynamic limit. Since many different perovskite compositions with …