To address the challenge in sustainable global development, considerable effort has been
made to produce fuels from renewable resources with photocatalysts and …

Colloidally grown nanosized semiconductors yield extremely high‐quality optoelectronic
materials. Many examples have pointed to near perfect photoluminescence quantum yields …

Solar cells have provided a solution to the prevailing energy crisis and environmental
contamination in the ongoing energy-driven era because of their potential to utilize solar …

In this work, novel mesoporous heterostructures composed of CdS, PbS and SnO 2
(CdS/PbS/SnO 2) were synthesized via a green and facile treatment. Interestingly, when the …

Metal sulfides have been the subject of extensive research owing to their electro-optical
properties that are suitable for photovoltaic applications. In particular, low-cost binary metal …

Recent advance in nanotechnology leads to develop a variety of metal chalcogenide
quantum dots (QDs) such as binary metal chalcogenides QDs and alloyed QDs. The …

An enhanced conversion efficiency of∼ 3.10% for PbS/CdS thin film solar cells without the
involvement of quantum dots is demonstrated by focusing on the origin of the enhancement …

Highlights•Facile and low-cost spray pyrolysis process is used to fabricate homogeneous
CdS: Gd films.•Structural and vibrational spectroscopy confirmed monophasic hexagonal …

We report the application of thin film nanocrystalline (NC) FeS 2 as the copper-free back
contact for CdTe solar cells. The FeS 2-NC layer is prepared from solution directly on the …

Summary Silver (Ag)‐doped PbS (PbS: Ag) thin films of 616 to 745 nm in thickness were
prepared on glass substrates via cost‐effective nebulizer spray method by adding different …