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 …

Advances in organic photovoltaic cells: a comprehensive review of materials, technologies, and performance

EK Solak, E Irmak - RSC advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells,
including their materials, technologies, and performance. In this context, the historical …

The 2020 photovoltaic technologies roadmap

GM Wilson, M Al-Jassim, WK Metzger… - Journal of Physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past decade, the global cumulative installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity has grown
exponentially, reaching 591 GW in 2019. Rapid progress was driven in large part by …

CdTe-based thin film solar cells: past, present and future

A Romeo, E Artegiani - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
CdTe is a very robust and chemically stable material and for this reason its related solar cell
thin film photovoltaic technology is now the only thin film technology in the first 10 top …

Wide band gap chalcogenide semiconductors

R Woods-Robinson, Y Han, H Zhang, T Ablekim… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Wide band gap semiconductors are essential for today's electronic devices and energy
applications because of their high optical transparency, controllable carrier concentration …

Benefits, problems, and solutions of silver nanowire transparent conductive electrodes in indium tin oxide (ITO)‐free flexible solar cells

MR Azani, A Hassanpour… - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, silver nanowires (AgNWs) are introduced, as the primary material to replace
indium tin oxide for fabricating cost‐effective flexible organic solar cells (FOSCs), because of …

A review of thin film solar cell technologies and challenges

TD Lee, AU Ebong - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Thin film solar cells are favorable because of their minimum material usage and rising
efficiencies. The three major thin film solar cell technologies include amorphous silicon (α …

Advances in nanostructures fabricated via spray pyrolysis and their applications in energy storage and conversion

J Leng, Z Wang, J Wang, HH Wu, G Yan, X Li… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Functional nanostructured materials have attracted great attention over the past several
decades owing to their unique physical and chemical properties, while their applications …

Grain boundary dominated ion migration in polycrystalline organic–inorganic halide perovskite films

Y Shao, Y Fang, T Li, Q Wang, Q Dong… - Energy & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The efficiency of perovskite solar cells is approaching that of single-crystalline silicon solar
cells despite the presence of a large grain boundary (GB) area in the polycrystalline thin …

Perovskites: the emergence of a new era for low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells

HJ Snaith - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2013 - ACS Publications
Over the last 12 months, we have witnessed an unexpected breakthrough and rapid
evolution in the field of emerging photovoltaics, with the realization of highly efficient solid …