Defect and contact passivation for perovskite solar cells

E Aydin, M De Bastiani, S De Wolf - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Metal‐halide perovskites are rapidly emerging as an important class of photovoltaic
absorbers that may enable high‐performance solar cells at affordable cost. Thanks to the …

The current status and future prospects of kesterite solar cells: a brief review

X Liu, Y Feng, H Cui, F Liu, X Hao… - Progress in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Kesterite‐based solar cells are attracting considerable attention in recent years, owing to the
reduced toxicity and greater abundance of their constituent elements. In this brief review, we …

Passivation of grain boundaries by phenethylammonium in formamidinium-methylammonium lead halide perovskite solar cells

DS Lee, JS Yun, J Kim, AM Soufiani, S Chen… - ACS Energy …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In this work, we report the benefits of incorporating phenethylammonium cation (PEA+) into
(HC (NH2) 2PbI3) 0.85 (CH3NH3PbBr3) 0.15 perovskite for the first time. After adding small …

Benefit of grain boundaries in organic–inorganic halide planar perovskite solar cells

JS Yun, A Ho-Baillie, S Huang, SH Woo… - The journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The past 2 years have seen the uniquely rapid emergence of a new class of solar cell based
on mixed organic–inorganic halide perovskite. Grain boundaries are present in …

N‐Type Surface Design for p‐Type CZTSSe Thin Film to Attain High Efficiency

Y Sun, P Qiu, W Yu, J Li, H Guo, L Wu, H Luo… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As a low‐cost substitute that uses no expensive rare‐earth elements for the high‐efficiency
Cu (In, Ga)(S, Se) 2 solar cell, the Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) solar cell has borrowed …

Microscopic investigation of grain boundaries in organolead halide perovskite solar cells

JJ Li, JY Ma, QQ Ge, JS Hu, D Wang… - ACS applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Grain boundaries (GBs) play an important role in organic–inorganic halide perovskite solar
cells, which have generally been recognized as a new class of materials for photovoltaic …

Insights into interface and bulk defects in a high efficiency kesterite-based device

R Fonoll-Rubio, J Andrade-Arvizu… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This work provides a detailed analysis of a high efficiency Cu2ZnSnSe4 device using a
combination of advanced electron microscopy and spectroscopy techniques. In particular, a …

Towards high efficiency thin film solar cells

G Han, S Zhang, PP Boix, LH Wong, L Sun… - Progress in Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
As an alternative to single crystal silicon photovoltaics, thin film solar cells have been
extensively explored for miniaturized cost-effective photovoltaic systems. Though the fight to …

The Role of Hydrogen from ALD‐Al2O3 in Kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells: Grain Surface Passivation

J Park, J Huang, J Yun, F Liu, Z Ouyang… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this research, a new route of surface passivation is reported by introducing hydrogen from
the atomic layer deposited (ALD) Al2O3 layer into pure sulfide Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) solar …

Nucleation and Growth Control of HC(NH2)2PbI3 for Planar Perovskite Solar Cell

J Kim, JS Yun, X Wen, AM Soufiani… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
HC (NH2) 2PbI3 perovskite solar cells have emerged as a promising alternative to
CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells due to their better thermal stability and lower bandgap …