Emerging chalcogenide thin films for solar energy harvesting devices

S Hadke, M Huang, C Chen, YF Tay, S Chen… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Chalcogenide semiconductors offer excellent optoelectronic properties for their use in solar
cells, exemplified by the commercialization of Cu (In, Ga) Se2-and CdTe-based photovoltaic …

[HTML][HTML] Grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials for energy applications: First principles modeling and electron microscopy

J Quirk, M Rothmann, W Li, D Abou-Ras… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Polycrystalline materials are ubiquitous in technology, and grain boundaries have long been
known to affect materials properties and performance. First principles materials modeling …

Benchmark performance of low-cost Sb2Se3 photocathodes for unassisted solar overall water splitting

W Yang, JH Kim, OS Hutter, LJ Phillips, J Tan… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Determining cost-effective semiconductors exhibiting desirable properties for commercial
photoelectrochemical water splitting remains a challenge. Herein, we report a Sb2Se3 …

Towards high efficiency inverted Sb2Se3 thin film solar cells

Y Cao, X Zhu, H Chen, X Zhang, J Zhouc, Z Hu… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sb 2 Se 3 as a rising star semiconducting material with a bandgap of 1.1 eV has played a
role of the absorber in the thin film solar cells. Regular device architectures such as metal …

Chalcogenide perovskites for photovoltaics: current status and prospects

D Tiwari, OS Hutter, G Longo - Journal of Physics: Energy, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Chalcogenide perovskite materials are anticipated to have favourable structural, optical and
electronic characteristics for solar energy conversion, yet experimental verification of the …

The complex defect chemistry of antimony selenide

CN Savory, DO Scanlon - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Antimony selenide, Sb2Se3, is a highly promising solar absorber material with excellent
optoelectronic properties; solar cell efficiencies are now poised to exceed 10%, after a rapid …

Isotype Heterojunction Solar Cells Using n-Type Sb2Se3 Thin Films

TDC Hobson, LJ Phillips, OS Hutter, H Shiel… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The carrier-type of the emerging photovoltaic Sb2Se3 was evaluated for both thin films and
bulk crystals via a range of complementary techniques. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy …

Critical review on crystal orientation engineering of antimony chalcogenide thin film for solar cell applications

K Li, R Tang, C Zhu, T Chen - Advanced Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The emerging antimony chalcogenide (Sb2 (SxSe1− x) 3, 0≤ x≤ 1) semiconductors are
featured as quasi‐1D structures comprising (Sb4S (e) 6) n ribbons, this structural …

Defect engineering in antimony selenide thin film solar cells

U Wijesinghe, G Longo, OS Hutter - Energy Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) has gained promising attention as an inorganic absorber in
thin-film photovoltaics and water splitting devices due to its excellent optoelectronic …

Natural Band Alignments and Band Offsets of Sb2Se3 Solar Cells

H Shiel, OS Hutter, LJ Phillips… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Sb2Se3 is a promising material for use in photovoltaics, but the optimum device structure
has not yet been identified. This study provides band alignment measurements between …