A critical review on the progress of kesterite solar cells: Current strategies and insights

A Wang, M He, MA Green, K Sun… - Advanced Energy …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Kesterite Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) with earth‐abundant and environmental‐
benign constituents has been regarded as a promising solar energy harvesting material for …

Progress and prospects for ultrathin solar cells

I Massiot, A Cattoni, S Collin - Nature Energy, 2020‏ - nature.com
Ultrathin solar cells with thicknesses at least 10 times lower than conventional solar cells
could have the unique potential to efficiently convert solar energy into electricity while …

Ge bidirectional diffusion to simultaneously engineer back interface and bulk defects in the absorber for efficient CZTSSe solar cells

J Wang, J Zhou, X Xu, F Meng, C **ang… - Advanced …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aiming at a large open‐circuit voltage (VOC) deficit in Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) solar
cells, a new and effective strategy to simultaneously regulate the back interface and restrain …

A critical review on tin halide perovskite solar cells

M Konstantakou, T Stergiopoulos - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
APbI3− xBrx perovskite solar cells with the bandgap of∼ 1.5–1.6 eV, where A represents
caesium, methylammonium, formamidinium and mixtures thereof, currently present certified …

New-generation integrated devices based on dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells

S Yun, Y Qin, AR Uhl, N Vlachopoulos, M Yin… - Energy & …, 2018‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The sharp increase of research passion in the new-generation solar cells in recent years
has resulted in a new trend in combining multiple types of energy devices in a single device …

Defect suppression for high-efficiency kesterite CZTSSe solar cells: Advances and prospects

H Wei, Y Li, C Cui, X Wang, Z Shao, S Pang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Comprising of earth-abundant, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly elements, kesterite
Cu 2 ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) solar cells are demonstrated to have enormous potential to …

Defect engineering in multinary earth‐abundant chalcogenide photovoltaic materials

D Shin, B Saparov, DB Mitzi - Advanced Energy Materials, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Application of zinc‐blende‐related chalcogenide absorbers such as CdTe and Cu (In, Ga)
Se2 (CIGSe) has enabled remarkable advancement in laboratory‐and commercial‐scale …

Cation substitution in earth‐abundant kesterite photovoltaic materials

J Li, D Wang, X Li, Y Zeng, Y Zhang - Advanced Science, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
As a promising candidate for low‐cost and environmentally friendly thin‐film photovoltaics,
the emerging kesterite‐based Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) solar cells have experienced …

Lattice dynamics of the tin sulphides SnS 2, SnS and Sn 2 S 3: vibrational spectra and thermal transport

JM Skelton, LA Burton, AJ Jackson, F Oba… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
We present an in-depth first-principles study of the lattice dynamics of the tin sulphides
SnS2, Pnma and π-cubic SnS and Sn2S3. An analysis of the harmonic phonon dispersion …

Engineering of interface band bending and defects elimination via a Ag-graded active layer for efficient (Cu, Ag) 2 ZnSn (S, Se) 4 solar cells

YF Qi, DX Kou, WH Zhou, ZJ Zhou, QW Tian… - Energy & …, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Although the substitution of Cu by Ag to suppress CuZn defects offers several advantages in
overcoming the large open-circuit voltage (Voc) deficit for Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) …