SnS Thin Film Solar Cells: Perspectives and Limitations

SnS Thin Film Solar Cells: Perspectives and Limitations

Thin film solar cells have reached commercial maturity and extraordinarily high efficiency that make them competitive even with the cheaper Chinese crystalline silicon modules. However, some issues (connected with presence of toxic and/or rare elements) are still limiting their market diffusion. For this reason new thin film materials, such as Cu2ZnSnS4 or SnS, have been introduced so that expe...

Band alignment of SnS/Zn(O,S) heterojunctions in SnS thin film solar cells

THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS Technology Evaluation and Perspectives

The main thin-film solar cell technologies are evaluated with respect to the criteria Cost, Applicability, Sustainability and Compatibility with the Dutch PV infrastructure. This evaluation concerns the following technologies in particular: thin film crystalline silicon, separated into low and high temperature deposition processes (LT-f-Si, HT-f-Si), amorphous silicon (a-(Si,Ge):H), copper indi...

Thin-film Silicon Solar Cells

The simplest semiconductor junction that is used in solar cells for separating photogenerated charge carriers is the p-n junction, an interface between the p-type region and ntype region of one semiconductor. Therefore, the basic semiconductor property of a material, the possibility to vary its conductivity by doping, has to be demonstrated first before the material can be considered as a suita...

Crystalline Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells