Scientific complications and controversies noted in the field of CdS/CdTe thin film solar cells and the way forward for further development

IM Dharmadasa, AE Alam, AA Ojo… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - Springer
Cadmium telluride-based solar cell is the most successfully commercialised thin film solar
cell today. The laboratory-scale small devices have achieved~ 22%, and commercial solar …

[HTML][HTML] Electroplating of semiconductor materials for applications in large area electronics: A review

AA Ojo, IM Dharmadasa - Coatings, 2018 - mdpi.com
The attributes of electroplating as a low-cost, simple, scalable, and manufacturable
semiconductor deposition technique for the fabrication of large-area and nanotechnology …

[SÁCH][B] Advances in thin-film solar cells

IM Dharmadasa - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Solar energy conversion plays a very important role in the rapid introduction of renewable
energy, which is essential to meet future energy demands without further polluting the …

The effect of electrolytic solution pH on the properties of electrodeposited CdTe thin films for solar energy application

AU Yimamu, MA Afrassa, FB Dejene, OK Echendu… - Optical Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin films were synthesized by using a two-electrode
electrodeposition method on a conductive glass fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate …

Electrodeposition of CdTe thin films using an acetate precursor for solar energy application: The effect of deposition voltage

AU Yimamu, MA Afrassa, BF Dejene… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) thin films were synthesized using a low-cost two-
electrode electrodeposition configuration in potentiostatic mode and from an aqueous acidic …

Unravelling complex nature of CdS/CdTe based thin film solar cells

IM Dharmadasa, AA Ojo - Journal of Materials Science: Materials in …, 2017 - Springer
Thin film solar cells based on CdS/CdTe hetero-structure has shown a drastic improvement
changing from 16.5 to 22.1% efficiency during a short period of time from~ 2013 to~ 2016 …

Electrodeposition of CdS thin-films from cadmium acetate and ammonium thiosulphate precursors

AE Alam, WM Cranton, IM Dharmadasa - Journal of Materials Science …, 2019 - Springer
Cadmium sulphide (CdS) thin-films have been electrodeposited using two electrode system
to be used as the hole back diffusion barrier (hbdb) layer for graded bandgap solar cells with …

[HTML][HTML] SCAPS 3201 simulation of tunable heterostructured p-CdTe and n-CdS thin films-based solar cells

AA Faremi, PA Olubambi, AO Salau, AA Ibiyemi - Results in Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a numerical simulation using SCAPS 3201 and an electrometer for the
investigation of electrical behavior at the interface of heterostructured Cadmium telluride and …

[HTML][HTML] Electrodeposition of CdTe thin films for solar energy water splitting

J Ling, X Zhang, T Mao, L Li, S Wang, M Cao, J Zhang… - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
CdTe thin films have been prepared by electrochemical deposition. The morphological,
structural, and optical properties of CdTe thin films deposited with different deposition time …

Effect of CdTe nucleation layer on the performance of CdS/CdTe thin film solar cells

G Gajanayake, AAI Lakmal, DSM De Silva… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Springer
In this study, an electrodeposited CdTe nucleation layer (ED-CdTe*) was introduced on a
chemical bath deposited (CBD) CdS layer prior to close-spaced sublimation (CSS) of the …