Advances in nanostructured homojunction solar cells and photovoltaic materials

Nisar Ali, R. Ahmed, Jing Ting Luo, Mingkui Wang, Abul Kalam, Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi, Yong Qing Fu

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Abstract

Recently, various materials have been explored for their potential applications in homojunction solar cells, which have distinct advantages of good lattice matching at the junction interfaces with minimum recombination losses of carriers. This paper presents an overview of design, technique, and materials in the advanced homojunction solar cells with their latest reported efficiencies. We review the development of homojunction solar cells with two-dimensional (or thin film) based materials, one-dimensional materials (nanowire/nanorods/nanotube), and zero-dimensional (nanodots and quantum dots) based materials. Among the thin film materials explored for homojunction solar cells, we mainly focus this review on CuInS2, InGaN, and InP based homojunction solar cells.
Original languageEnglish
Article number104810
JournalMaterials Science in Semiconductor Processing
Volume107
Early online date11 Nov 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2020

Keywords

  • Homojunction Solar cell
  • photovoltaic
  • Optical property
  • Thin Film
  • Nanowire
  • Quantum dots

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