Environment-friendly copper-based chalcogenide thin film solar cells: status and perspectives

T Amrillah, A Prasetio, AR Supandi, DH Sidiq… - Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Copper chalcogenides (CuCh) have attracted considerable attention due to their promising
potential as environmental-friendly photoactive material for lightweight and flexible thin film …

A critical review of solution-process engineering for kesterite thin-film solar cells: current strategies and prospects

J Fu, J Yang, W Dong, S Ren, H Zhu, Y Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) material is considered a promising semiconductor
material for commercial photovoltaic applications due to its high theoretical efficiency, high …

Progress and prospectives of solution-processed kesterite absorbers for photovoltaic applications

L Wang, Y Wang, Z Zhou, W Zhou, D Kou, Y Meng, Y Qi… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar cells based on emerging kesterite Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) materials have
reached certified power conversion efficiency (PCE) as high as 13.6%, showing great …

Precursor solution chemistry via water additive enabling CZTSSe solar cells with over 12% efficiency

X Zhao, Y Pan, S Liu, L Jiang, Y Lai, F Liu - Science China Materials, 2023 - Springer
High-quality absorber films are imperative for highly efficient Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe)
thin-film solar cells. Precursor solution chemistry, interconnected with thin-film nucleation …

Molecular ink-derived chalcogenide thin films: Solution-phase mechanisms and solar energy conversion applications

J Tan, X Zhang, J Suh, N Ha, J Lee, SD Tilley… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of solution processing to fabricate metal chalcogenide thin films has gained
considerable interest because of its low cost and scalability compared to vacuum deposition …

Polymorphic Control of Solution-Processed Cu2SnS3 Films with Thiol–Amine Ink Formulation

KM Koskela, C Mora Perez, DB Eremin… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
There is increasing demand for tailored molecular inks that produce phase-pure solution-
processed semiconductor films. Within the Cu–Sn–S phase space, Cu2SnS3 belongs to the …

Critical review on the controllable growth and post-annealing on the heterojunction of the kesterite solar cells

Y Liu, S Wang, Y Zhang - Journal of Physics: Energy, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Critical review on the controllable growth and post-annealing on the heterojunction of the
kesterite solar cells Page 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT • OPEN ACCESS Critical review on …

Kesterite Films Processed with Organic Solvents: Unveiling the Impact of Carbon‐Rich Fine‐Grain‐Layer Formation on Solar‐Cell Performance

A Javed, D Donmez, MDK Jones, Y Qu… - Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Solution‐processed kesterite (copper zinc tin sulfide [CZTS]) solar cells attract significant
attention owing to their low cost, ease of large‐scale production, and earth‐abundant …

Semi-transparent Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells by drop-casting of sol-gel ink

G Tseberlidis, AH Husien, S Riva, L Frioni, A Le Donne… - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In current days, the research in the photovoltaic field aims to find and investigate cheap thin-
film materials based on earth-abundant element suitable for terawatt era. To this purpose Cu …

Benign solution-processed (Bi x Sb 1− x) 2 Se 3 alloys for short-wavelength infrared mesoporous solar cells

J Kumar, O Vana, SK Balakrishnan… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The short wavelength infrared (SWIR) region of the solar spectrum is underutilized, partly
due to the limited availability of light absorbers for this region. Here, we report the synthesis …