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Zhang, Han and Ng, Zi Neng and Kang, Chia Chao and Tan, Jian Ding and Ariannejad, Mohammadmahdi and Bhuiyan, Mohammad Arif Sobhan and Chan, Kah Yoong (2024) Efficiency enhancement of CZTS solar cell with WO3 buffer layer using CZTSe BSF layer. Energy Reports, 12. pp. 2707-2719. ISSN 2352-4847

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Abstract

Non-toxic, low-cost, and bandgap-direct material Copper Zinc Tin Sulphide (CZTS) is a promising candidate thin film solar cell. As the effort to improve the efficiency of the CZTS solar cell, this work chooses an environmentally friendly tungsten oxide (WO3) as the buffer layer due to its high bandgap and excellent electrical conductivity. Furthermore, Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) is employed as the back surface field (BSF) layer which is sandwiched between the absorber layer and the back contact layer. A new structure Pt/CZTSe/CZTS/WO3/ZnO is proposed and a comparative study is done between structures with and without BSF layer. The research investigates how the layer thickness, operating temperature, different back contact layer, acceptors, and defects in BSF layer affect the performance of CZTS solar cell using the solar cell capacitance simulator (SCAP-1D) simulation software. Efficiency of CZTS solar cell with WO3 is greatly improved with efficiency as high as 29.37 % for the proposed new structure

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	solar cells
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK9900-9971 Electricity for amateurs. Amateur constructors' manuals
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering (FOE)
Depositing User:	Ms Nurul Iqtiani Ahmad
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2024 01:03
Last Modified:	01 Oct 2024 01:03
URII:	http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/12994

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