Influence of sulfur partial pressure on the structural performance of Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells

Li, Xiaoming; Hao, Ruiting; Gu, Kang Seung; Guo, Jie; Mo, Jinghui; Fang, Shuiliu; Liu, Xinxing; Li, Yong; Wei, Guoshuai; Liu, Bin; Wang, Lu; Sun, Shuaihui; Liu, Huimin; Ma, Xiaole

doi:10.1016/j.mssp.2020.105552

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“…CZTS has a stable perovskite structure with a suitable band gap of 1.0-1.5 eV and a high absorption coefficient of 10 4 /cm. The preparation of this thin film material using non-toxic and abundant elements makes it a suitable candidate to replace CIGS as a thin film solar cell (Washio et al, 2012;Azmi et al, 2021;Kaur et al, 2021;Li X. M. et al, 2021;Ramirez-Ceja et al, 2021). A variety of experimental methods to prepare CZTS thin film materials have been developed, such as electrospinning (Bi et al, 2015;Mu et al, 2015), nano ink method (Altowairqi et al, 2019;Liu et al, 2020), sol-gel (Dong et al, 2017;Jacob et al, 2021), sputtering (Lu et al, 2018;Pandharkar et al, 2021) and electrodeposition (Khattak et al, 2019;Demir, 2021), and so forth.…”

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Study on the Optimization of Cu-Zn-Sn-O to Prepare Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Film via a Nano Ink Coating Method

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Front. Chem.

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To reduce the formation of the impurity phase, a buffer volume can be used to expands and smooths the surface of Cu2ZnSnS4(CZTS) thin film. In this study, a Cu-Zn-Sn-O(CZTO) precursor was synthesized through the process of coprecipitation-calcination-ball milling-spin coating. The influence of pH, temperature, and PVP on the constituent of hydroxides was investigated in the process of coprecipitation. Cu-Zn-Sn-O with appropriate compositions could be obtained by regulating the temperature and preservation time of the calcination stage. After ball milling to form a nano ink, and then spin coating, SEM images proved the generation of CZTO precursors, which effectively promoted the formation of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films. Finally, the phase, microstructure, chemical composition, and optical properties of the Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films prepared by sulfurized annealing CZTO precursors were characterized by EDX, XRD, Raman, FESEM, Hall effect, and UV methods. The prepared CZTS thin film demonstrated a band gap of 1.30 eV, which was suitable for improving the performance of CZTS thin film solar cells.

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