CdTe-based thin film photovoltaics: Recent advances, current challenges and future prospects

MA Scarpulla, B McCandless, AB Phillips, Y Yan… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cadmium telluride (CdTe)-based cells have emerged as the leading commercialized thin
film photovoltaic technology and has intrinsically better temperature coefficients, energy …

CdTe-based thin film solar cells: past, present and future

A Romeo, E Artegiani - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
CdTe is a very robust and chemically stable material and for this reason its related solar cell
thin film photovoltaic technology is now the only thin film technology in the first 10 top …

Exceeding 20% efficiency with in situ group V do** in polycrystalline CdTe solar cells

WK Metzger, S Grover, D Lu, E Colegrove, J Moseley… - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
CdTe-based solar technology has achieved one of the lowest levelized costs of electricity
among all energy sources as well as state-of-the-art field stability. Yet, there is still ample …

Recent progress towards photovoltaics' circular economy

MKH Rabaia, C Semeraro, AG Olabi - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Massive expansions in the global population and the global digitalization throughout the
industrial revolution are causing energy security issues that are no longer environmentally …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Chalcogenide photovoltaics: physics, technologies, and thin film devices

R Scheer, HW Schock - 2011 - books.google.com
This first comprehensive description of the most important material properties and device
aspects closes the gap between general books on solar cells and journal articles on …

Research progress in doped absorber layer of CdTe solar cells

Y Wang, G Wang, Y Zhou, Q ** of polycrystalline CdTe for high-efficiency solar cells on flexible metal foil
L Kranz, C Gretener, J Perrenoud, R Schmitt… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Roll-to-roll manufacturing of CdTe solar cells on flexible metal foil substrates is one of the
most attractive options for low-cost photovoltaic module production. However, various efforts …

Thermoelectric Performance of Surface-Engineered Cu1.5–xTe–Cu2Se Nanocomposites

C **ng, Y Zhang, K **ao, X Han, Y Liu, B Nan… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cu2–x S and Cu2–x Se have recently been reported as promising thermoelectric (TE)
materials for medium-temperature applications. In contrast, Cu2–x Te, another member of …

Past, present and future of the thin film CdTe/CdS solar cells

A Bosio, G Rosa, N Romeo - Solar Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Recently, the CdTe solar cell technology reached a high-tech level able to realize devices
showing efficiencies close to 22%. Nowadays, this technology acquires more and more …