Chalcogenide perovskites: tantalizing prospects, challenging materials

KV Sopiha, C Comparotto, JA Márquez… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Chalcogenide perovskites have recently emerged into the spotlight as highly robust, earth
abundant, and nontoxic candidates for various energy conversion applications, not least …

High-concentration silver alloying and steep back-contact gallium grading enabling copper indium gallium selenide solar cell with 23.6% efficiency

J Keller, K Kiselman, O Donzel-Gargand, NM Martin… - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
Chalcopyrite-based solar cells have reached an efficiency of 23.35%, yet further
improvements have been challenging. Here we present a 23.64% certified efficiency for a …

Extrinsic Do** of Ink‐Based Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2‐Absorbers for Photovoltaic Applications

S Suresh, DJ Rokke, AA Drew… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The addition of cesium into Cu (In, Ga)(S, Se) 2‐short CIGSSe‐absorber layers (fabricated
via vacuum deposition methods), has most recently culminated in devices with record power …

Over 100 mV VOC Improvement for Rear Passivated ACIGS Ultra‐Thin Solar Cells

A Oliveira, M Curado, J Teixeira, D Tomé… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A decentralized energy system requires photovoltaic solutions to meet new aesthetic
paradigms, such as lightness, flexibility, and new form factors. Notwithstanding, the materials …

Aspects of effectiveness and significance: The use of machine learning methods to study CuIn1-xGaxSe2 solar cells

N Bandaru, MK Enduri, CV Reddy, RR Kakarla - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The goal of this work is to enhance the efficiency of CuIn 1-x Ga x Se 2 (CIGS) thin film solar
cells by investigating the critical factors affecting their device performance and the …

Silver‐Alloyed Low‐Bandgap CuInSe2 Solar Cells for Tandem Applications

M Krause, SC Yang, S Moser, S Nishiwaki… - Solar …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photovoltaic conversion efficiency of CuInSe2 solar cells is limited by low fill factor (FF) and
open‐circuit‐voltage (V OC) values compared to Si or perovskite solar cells. Herein, small …

VOC‐losses across the band gap: Insights from a high‐throughput inline process for CIGS solar cells

R Gutzler, W Witte, A Kanevce… - Progress in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Big sets of experimental data are key to assess statistical device performance and to distill
underlying trends. This insight, in turn, can then be used to improve on the fabrication …

Rubidium Fluoride Absorber Treatment for Wide‐Gap (Ag,Cu)(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells

J Keller, H Aboulfadl, L Stolt, O Donzel-Gargand… - Solar Rrl, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This contribution studies the potential of an RbF postdeposition treatment (RbF‐PDT) of
wide‐gap (Ag, Cu)(In, Ga) Se2 (ACIGS) absorbers to improve the corresponding solar cell …

Reforming material chemistry of CIGS solar cells via a precise Ag do** strategy

J Hwang, HK Park, D Shin, I Jung, I Hwang… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The slowing pace of improvement in traditional inorganic material-based solar cells requires
innovation in device configurations and materials engineering. In this study, a small amount …

Wide‐gap chalcopyrite solar cells with indium oxide–based transparent back contacts

J Keller, L Stolt, O Donzel-Gargand, T Kubart… - Solar …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, the performance of wide‐gap Cu (In, Ga) Se2 (CIGS) and (Ag, Cu)(In, Ga) Se2
(ACIGS) solar cells with In2O3: Sn (ITO) and In2O3: H (IOH) as transparent back contact …