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Controllable Multinary Alloy Electrodeposition for Thin-Film Solar Cell Fabrication: A Case Study of Kesterite Cu(2)ZnSnS(4)
Electrodeposition (ED) technology is a low-cost industrial candidate for solar cell fabrication. However, the practical aspects of controlling deposit morphology and composition have not been significantly addressed because of the complex co-plating variables that still need to be understood for mul...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6135938/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30227957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2018.02.002 |
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author | Ge, Jie Yan, Yanfa |
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description | Electrodeposition (ED) technology is a low-cost industrial candidate for solar cell fabrication. However, the practical aspects of controlling deposit morphology and composition have not been significantly addressed because of the complex co-plating variables that still need to be understood for multinary alloy ED. This work addresses these practical aspects on how to control composition and deposit morphology using co-electrodeposited kesterite alloy precursors as a case study. The alloy precursors co-plated under the optimized conditions from a mixed thiosulfate-sulfite electrolyte bath show uniform, smooth, and compact film morphology as well as uniform distribution of composition, well suited for efficient kesterite absorbers, finally delivering a Cu(2)ZnSnS(4) (CZTS) thin-film solar cell with 7.4% efficiency based on a configuration Mo/CZTS/CdS/ZnO/aluminum-doped ZnO. This work underscores that alloy ED, with the advantage of controllable composition and morphology, holds promise for low-cost industrial manufacture of thin-film solar cells. |
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spelling | pubmed-61359382018-09-17 Controllable Multinary Alloy Electrodeposition for Thin-Film Solar Cell Fabrication: A Case Study of Kesterite Cu(2)ZnSnS(4) Ge, Jie Yan, Yanfa iScience Article Electrodeposition (ED) technology is a low-cost industrial candidate for solar cell fabrication. However, the practical aspects of controlling deposit morphology and composition have not been significantly addressed because of the complex co-plating variables that still need to be understood for multinary alloy ED. This work addresses these practical aspects on how to control composition and deposit morphology using co-electrodeposited kesterite alloy precursors as a case study. The alloy precursors co-plated under the optimized conditions from a mixed thiosulfate-sulfite electrolyte bath show uniform, smooth, and compact film morphology as well as uniform distribution of composition, well suited for efficient kesterite absorbers, finally delivering a Cu(2)ZnSnS(4) (CZTS) thin-film solar cell with 7.4% efficiency based on a configuration Mo/CZTS/CdS/ZnO/aluminum-doped ZnO. This work underscores that alloy ED, with the advantage of controllable composition and morphology, holds promise for low-cost industrial manufacture of thin-film solar cells. Elsevier 2018-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6135938/ /pubmed/30227957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2018.02.002 Text en © 2018 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ge, Jie Yan, Yanfa Controllable Multinary Alloy Electrodeposition for Thin-Film Solar Cell Fabrication: A Case Study of Kesterite Cu(2)ZnSnS(4) |
title | Controllable Multinary Alloy Electrodeposition for Thin-Film Solar Cell Fabrication: A Case Study of Kesterite Cu(2)ZnSnS(4) |
title_full | Controllable Multinary Alloy Electrodeposition for Thin-Film Solar Cell Fabrication: A Case Study of Kesterite Cu(2)ZnSnS(4) |
title_fullStr | Controllable Multinary Alloy Electrodeposition for Thin-Film Solar Cell Fabrication: A Case Study of Kesterite Cu(2)ZnSnS(4) |
title_full_unstemmed | Controllable Multinary Alloy Electrodeposition for Thin-Film Solar Cell Fabrication: A Case Study of Kesterite Cu(2)ZnSnS(4) |
title_short | Controllable Multinary Alloy Electrodeposition for Thin-Film Solar Cell Fabrication: A Case Study of Kesterite Cu(2)ZnSnS(4) |
title_sort | controllable multinary alloy electrodeposition for thin-film solar cell fabrication: a case study of kesterite cu(2)znsns(4) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6135938/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30227957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2018.02.002 |
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