Kesterite solar cells: insights into current strategies and challenges

M He, C Yan, J Li, MP Suryawanshi, J Kim… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Earth‐abundant and environmentally benign kesterite Cu2ZnSn (S, Se) 4 (CZTSSe) is a
promising alternative to its cousin chalcopyrite Cu (In, Ga)(S, Se) 2 (CIGS) for photovoltaic …

Point defect engineering in thin-film solar cells

JS Park, S Kim, Z **e, A Walsh - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018‏ - nature.com
Control of defect processes in photovoltaic materials is essential for realizing high-efficiency
solar cells and related optoelectronic devices. Native defects and extrinsic dopants tune the …

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 …

Is the Cu/Zn disorder the main culprit for the voltage deficit in kesterite solar cells?

S Bourdais, C Choné, B Delatouche… - Advanced Energy …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Photovoltaic thin film solar cells based on kesterite Cu2ZnSn (Sx, Se1–x) 4 compounds
(CZTSSe) have reached> 12% sunlight‐to‐electricity conversion efficiency. This is still far …

Beyond 11% Efficient Sulfide Kesterite Cu2ZnxCd1–xSnS4 Solar Cell: Effects of Cadmium Alloying

C Yan, K Sun, J Huang, S Johnston, F Liu… - ACS Energy …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin-film solar cells have drawn worldwide attention because
of outstanding performance and earth-abundant constituents. However, problems such as …

The steady rise of kesterite solar cells

SK Wallace, DB Mitzi, A Walsh - ACS Energy Letters, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Could slow and steady win the race to sustainable energy generation? While perovskite
solar cells are currently at the forefront of photovoltaic research activity, we argue in this …

Point defects, compositional fluctuations, and secondary phases in non-stoichiometric kesterites

S Schorr, G Gurieva, M Guc… - Journal of Physics …, 2019‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The efficiency of kesterite-based solar cells is limited by various non-ideal recombination
paths, amongst others by a high density of defect states and by the presence of binary or …

Cd-Free Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 solar cell with an efficiency greater than 10% enabled by Al 2 O 3 passivation layers

X Cui, K Sun, J Huang, JS Yun, CY Lee… - Energy & …, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Environmentally friendly earth-abundant Cd-free Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) solar cells have
recently achieved increasing power conversion efficiency by using ZnSnO as the buffer …

[HTML][HTML] On the origin of band-tails in kesterite

G Rey, G Larramona, S Bourdais, C Choné… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Kesterite Cu 2 ZnSn (S x Se 1− x) 4 is an attractive earth-abundant material for low-
cost thin film photovoltaics with the capability to achieve power production in the terawatt …

Identification of killer defects in kesterite thin-film solar cells

S Kim, JS Park, A Walsh - ACS Energy Letters, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Nonradiative electron–hole recombination is the bottleneck to efficient kesterite thin-film
solar cells. We have performed a search for active point defect recombination centers using …