A review on pulsed laser deposited CZTS thin films for solar cell applications

SA Vanalakar, GL Agawane, SW Shin… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Cu 2 ZnSnS 4; commonly abbreviated as CZTS is a promising material for low cost thin film
solar cells, because of its suitable band gap energy of around 1.5 eV and large absorption …

Nontoxic and earth-abundant Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin film solar cells: A review on high throughput processed methods

S Chander, SK Tripathi, I Kaur, AK De - Materials Today Sustainability, 2024 - Elsevier
Photovoltaics is one of the most well-known sustainable technologies to supply all of the
world's energy needs due to its enduring nature and lack of pollution. CdTe, CIGS, and a-Si …

Fabrication of nanostructured ZnO thin films based NO2 gas sensor via SILAR technique

VL Patil, SA Vanalakar, PS Patil, JH Kim - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2017 - Elsevier
Zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films have been widely used as an effective gas sensor element. In the
present study, nanostructured thin films of ZnO were prepared by using the simplistic and …

Controlled growth of ZnO nanorod arrays via wet chemical route for NO2 gas sensor applications

SA Vanalakar, VL Patil, NS Harale… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2015 - Elsevier
Metal oxide gas sensors are promising devices that are widely used to detect various gases
at moderate temperatures. In this study, nitrogen di-oxide (NO 2) sensors were fabricated …

Construction of Cu doped ZnO nanorods by chemical method for Low temperature detection of NO2 gas

VL Patil, SA Vanalakar, NL Tarwal, AP Patil… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this report, we have prepared Cu-doped ZnO nanorods by a simplistic wet chemical
method with subsequent annealing. The phase formation, optical, surface morphological …

Properties of thermally evaporated CZTS thin films and numerical simulation of earth abundant and non toxic CZTS/Zn (S, O) based solar cells

N Khemiri, S Chamekh, M Kanzari - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Earth abundant Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS) films were grown by thermal evaporation
technique onto non heated substrates. As deposited CZTS films were annealed under two …

Fabrication of Cu2SnS3 thin film solar cells using pulsed laser deposition technique

SA Vanalakar, GL Agawane, AS Kamble… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Ternary chalcogenide semiconductor Cu 2 SnS 3 (CTS) is an emerging material,
attracting increasing interest for the applications in thin film solar cells. Here we report a …

Recent advances in synthesis of Cu2FeSnS4 materials for solar cell applications: a review

SA Vanalakar, PS Patil, JH Kim - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2018 - Elsevier
The earth-abundant Cu based multinary chalcogenides have great interest in the field of
environmentally benign thin film solar cells. Recently, Cu 2 FeSnS 4 (CFTS), one of the …

Computational and experimental characterizations of annealed Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films

AA Ahmad, AB Migdadi, AM Alsaad, IA Qattan… - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
We report on the synthesis and characterization of Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS) thin films prepared
at different annealing temperatures using the sol-gel method and deposited on glass …

Fabrication of Sb2S3 thin films by sputtering and post-annealing for solar cells

C Gao, J Huang, H Li, K Sun, Y Lai, M Jia, L Jiang… - Ceramics …, 2019 - Elsevier
The semiconductor antimony sulfide (Sb 2 S 3) is a potential absorber materials for the top
sub-cell of Si-based tandem solar cells because of its appropriate band-gap, simple binary …