Sputtering Deposited and Energy Band Matched ZnSnN2 Buffer Layers for Highly Efficient Cd‐Free Cu2ZnSnS4 Solar Cells

F Ye, C He, T Wu, S Chen, Z Su… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) solar cells with CdS buffer layers have the problem of
toxicity and cliff‐like energy band diagram disfavoring higher photoelectric conversion …

Review of ZnSnN2 semiconductor material

IS Khan, KN Heinselman… - Journal of physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Zinc tin nitride (ZnSnN 2) is one of the emerging ternary nitride semiconductors considered
for photovoltaic device applications due to its attractive and tunable material properties and …

Study on the Thermal Distribution Characteristics of a Molten Quartz Ceramic Surface under Quartz Lamp Radiation

H Chen, W Li, S Zhu, A Hou, T Liu, J Xu, X Zhang, Z Yi… - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
More and more researchers are studying the heat transfer performance of aeronautical
materials at high temperatures. In this paper, we use a quartz lamp to irradiate fused quartz …

Band Gap-Tunable (Mg, Zn)SnN2 Earth-Abundant Alloys with a Wurtzite Structure

N Yamada, M Mizutani, K Matsuura… - ACS Applied …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Herein, wurtzite-type MgSnN2–ZnSnN2 alloys (Mg x Zn1–x SnN2) are proposed as earth-
abundant and band gap-tunable semiconductors with fundamental band gaps in the range …

Self-do** behavior and cation disorder in

D Han, SS Rudel, W Schnick, H Ebert - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Investigations on II-Sn-N 2 (II= Mg, Ca) have been started very recently compared to the
intense research of Zn-IV-N 2 (IV= Si, Ge, Sn). In this work, we study the phase stability of …

Nanocrystalline ZnSnN2 Prepared by Reactive Sputtering, Its Schottky Diodes and Heterojunction Solar Cells

F Ye, RT Hong, YB Qiu, YZ **e, DP Zhang, P Fan… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
ZnSnN2 has potential applications in photocatalysis and photovoltaics. However, the
difficulty in preparing nondegenerate ZnSnN2 hinders its device application. Here, the …

Improvement in the efficiency of solar cells based on the ZnSnN2/Si structure

A Aissat, L Chenini, A Laidouci, S Nacer… - Materials Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aims to investigate the different optical properties of the ZnSnN 2 absorber layer
such as absorption, reflection and transmission coefficients. The effects of the ZnSnN 2 …

ZnSnN2 Schottky barrier solar cells

F Ye, RT Hong, CS He, ZC Zhao, YZ **e… - Materials Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The electron density of ZnSnN 2 fabricated by different deposition methods is usually much
higher than its conduction band density of states and this hinders its device application. By …

Mixed phase ZnSnN2 thin films for solar energy applications: Insight into optical and electrical properties

A Nezhdanov, A Skrylev, D Shestakov, D Usanov… - Optical Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Zinc tin nitride (ZnSnN 2, ZTN) films synthesized by magnetron co-sputtering at a
temperature close to the ZTN decomposition point and with the cation ratio close to …

Electrical properties of zinc nitride and zinc tin nitride semiconductor thin films toward photovoltaic applications

Y Wang, T Ohsawa, F Alnjiman, JF Pierson… - High temperature …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Abstract Zn3N2 (ZN) and ZnSnN2 (ZTN) are a promising class of nitride semiconductors for
photovoltaic and light-emitting-diode applications due to their particular electrical and optical …