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Towards All-Non-Vacuum-Processed Photovoltaic Systems: A Water-Based Screen-Printed Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) Photoabsorber with a 6.6% Efficiency

During the last few decades, major advances have been made in photovoltaic systems based on Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) chalcopyrite. However, the most efficient photovoltaic cells are processed under high-energy-demanding vacuum conditions. To lower the costs and facilitate high-throughput production, printing/...

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Autores principales: Gonçalves, Bruna F., Sousa, Viviana, Virtuoso, José, Modin, Evgeny, Lebedev, Oleg I., Botelho, Gabriela, Sadewasser, Sascha, Salonen, Laura M., Lanceros-Méndez, Senentxu, Kolen’ko, Yury V.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10343602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37446436
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano13131920
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author Gonçalves, Bruna F.
Sousa, Viviana
Virtuoso, José
Modin, Evgeny
Lebedev, Oleg I.
Botelho, Gabriela
Sadewasser, Sascha
Salonen, Laura M.
Lanceros-Méndez, Senentxu
Kolen’ko, Yury V.
author_facet Gonçalves, Bruna F.
Sousa, Viviana
Virtuoso, José
Modin, Evgeny
Lebedev, Oleg I.
Botelho, Gabriela
Sadewasser, Sascha
Salonen, Laura M.
Lanceros-Méndez, Senentxu
Kolen’ko, Yury V.
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description During the last few decades, major advances have been made in photovoltaic systems based on Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) chalcopyrite. However, the most efficient photovoltaic cells are processed under high-energy-demanding vacuum conditions. To lower the costs and facilitate high-throughput production, printing/coating processes are proving to be effective solutions. This work combined printing, coating, and chemical bath deposition processes of photoabsorber, buffer, and transparent conductive layers for the development of solution-processed photovoltaic systems. Using a sustainable approach, all inks were formulated using water and ethanol as solvents. Screen printing of the photoabsorber on fluorine-doped tin-oxide-coated glass followed by selenization, chemical bath deposition of the cadmium sulfide buffer, and final sputtering of the intrinsic zinc oxide and aluminum-doped zinc oxide top conductive layers delivered a 6.6% maximum efficiency solar cell, a record for screen-printed Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) solar cells. On the other hand, the all-non-vacuum-processed device with spray-coated intrinsic zinc-oxide- and tin-doped indium oxide top conductive layers delivered a 2.2% efficiency. The given approaches represent relevant steps towards the fabrication of sustainable and efficient Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) solar cells.
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spelling pubmed-103436022023-07-14 Towards All-Non-Vacuum-Processed Photovoltaic Systems: A Water-Based Screen-Printed Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) Photoabsorber with a 6.6% Efficiency Gonçalves, Bruna F. Sousa, Viviana Virtuoso, José Modin, Evgeny Lebedev, Oleg I. Botelho, Gabriela Sadewasser, Sascha Salonen, Laura M. Lanceros-Méndez, Senentxu Kolen’ko, Yury V. Nanomaterials (Basel) Article During the last few decades, major advances have been made in photovoltaic systems based on Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) chalcopyrite. However, the most efficient photovoltaic cells are processed under high-energy-demanding vacuum conditions. To lower the costs and facilitate high-throughput production, printing/coating processes are proving to be effective solutions. This work combined printing, coating, and chemical bath deposition processes of photoabsorber, buffer, and transparent conductive layers for the development of solution-processed photovoltaic systems. Using a sustainable approach, all inks were formulated using water and ethanol as solvents. Screen printing of the photoabsorber on fluorine-doped tin-oxide-coated glass followed by selenization, chemical bath deposition of the cadmium sulfide buffer, and final sputtering of the intrinsic zinc oxide and aluminum-doped zinc oxide top conductive layers delivered a 6.6% maximum efficiency solar cell, a record for screen-printed Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) solar cells. On the other hand, the all-non-vacuum-processed device with spray-coated intrinsic zinc-oxide- and tin-doped indium oxide top conductive layers delivered a 2.2% efficiency. The given approaches represent relevant steps towards the fabrication of sustainable and efficient Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) solar cells. MDPI 2023-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10343602/ /pubmed/37446436 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano13131920 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Gonçalves, Bruna F.
Sousa, Viviana
Virtuoso, José
Modin, Evgeny
Lebedev, Oleg I.
Botelho, Gabriela
Sadewasser, Sascha
Salonen, Laura M.
Lanceros-Méndez, Senentxu
Kolen’ko, Yury V.
Towards All-Non-Vacuum-Processed Photovoltaic Systems: A Water-Based Screen-Printed Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) Photoabsorber with a 6.6% Efficiency
title Towards All-Non-Vacuum-Processed Photovoltaic Systems: A Water-Based Screen-Printed Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) Photoabsorber with a 6.6% Efficiency
title_full Towards All-Non-Vacuum-Processed Photovoltaic Systems: A Water-Based Screen-Printed Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) Photoabsorber with a 6.6% Efficiency
title_fullStr Towards All-Non-Vacuum-Processed Photovoltaic Systems: A Water-Based Screen-Printed Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) Photoabsorber with a 6.6% Efficiency
title_full_unstemmed Towards All-Non-Vacuum-Processed Photovoltaic Systems: A Water-Based Screen-Printed Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) Photoabsorber with a 6.6% Efficiency
title_short Towards All-Non-Vacuum-Processed Photovoltaic Systems: A Water-Based Screen-Printed Cu(In,Ga)Se(2) Photoabsorber with a 6.6% Efficiency
title_sort towards all-non-vacuum-processed photovoltaic systems: a water-based screen-printed cu(in,ga)se(2) photoabsorber with a 6.6% efficiency
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10343602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37446436
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano13131920
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