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 …

Back contacts materials used in thin film CdTe solar cells—A review

RS Hall, D Lamb, SJC Irvine - Energy Science & Engineering, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
CdTe is the leading commercial thin film photovoltaic technology with current record
laboratory efficiency (22.1%). However, there is much potential for progress toward the …

Numerical analysis for the efficiency enhancement of MoS2 solar cell: a simulation approach by SCAPS-1D

MD Haque, MH Ali, MF Rahman, AZMT Islam - Optical Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The performance parameters of molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2) solar cell with antimony
trisulfide (Sb 2 S 3) hole transport layer (HTL) have been studied by One Dimension Solar …

Performance enhancement of CIGS solar cell with two dimensional MoS2 hole transport layer

AK Patel, R Mishra, SK Soni - Micro and Nanostructures, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper describes a performance analysis of solar cell based on Cu (In 1-x Ga x) Se 2
(CIGS) material as an absorber layer together with two dimensional (2d)-MoS 2 as hole …

Tweaking the performance of thin film CIGS solar cell using InP as buffer layer

M Deo, RK Chauhan - Optik, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a high performing copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS)(CuIn 1− x Ga x Se 2)
based solar cell is designed using less toxic indium phosphide (InP) as a buffer layer …

Efficiency enhancement of WSe2 heterojunction solar cell with CuSCN as a hole transport layer: A numerical simulation approach

MD Haque, MH Ali, AZMT Islam - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In this research work, the tungsten diselenide (WSe 2)-based thin-film solar cell with a
copper thiocyanate (CuSCN) hole transport layer (HTL) has been designed and studied by …

Why Increased CdSeTe Charge Carrier Lifetimes and Radiative Efficiencies did not Result in Voltage Boost for CdTe Solar Cells

D Kuciauskas, M Nardone, A Bothwell… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
After a focused effort over the last decade, order‐of‐magnitude improvements in do** and
electro‐optical characteristics (radiative efficiency, carrier lifetime, and passivation) have …

As‐Doped Polycrystalline CdSeTe: Localized Defects, Carrier Mobility and Lifetimes, and Impact on High‐Efficiency Solar Cells

P Ščajev, M Nardone, C Reich… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The efficiency potential for single‐junction photovoltaics (PV) is described by the detailed
balance model, which requires the elimination of nonradiative recombination and perfect …

Enabling bifacial thin film devices by develo** a back surface field using CuxAlOy

KK Subedi, AB Phillips, N Shrestha, FK Alfadhili… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Bifacial solar cells have the potential to increase the energy yield per unit area over
traditional monofacial devices without significant added cost, driving $/kWh costs lower and …

Indium gallium oxide emitters for high-efficiency CdTe-based solar cells

MK Jamarkattel, AB Phillips, I Subedi… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
There are limited choices for front-surface, electron-selective contacts (emitters) for CdTe
solar cells, thus hindering scientific and technical development. Here we investigate the …