Non-vacuum mechanochemical route to the synthesis of Cu2SnS3 nano-ink for solar cell applications

A novel microwave assisted reverse micelle fabrication route for Th (IV)‐MOFs as highly efficient adsorbent nanostructures with controllable structural properties to CO and CH4 adsorption: Design, and a systematic study

“…On the other hand, the sample synthesized by UARM method consists of particles with the size of nearly 90 nm. As can be observed, these particles tend to be agglomerated, which would result in non‐uniform morphology than the MARM‐synthesized samples . It seems that the difference in the morphology and size of the synthesized samples can be attributed to the applied synthesis method.…”

Fabrication of Cu2SnS3 thin film solar cells using pulsed laser deposition technique

“…We also believe that the lower open-circuit voltage may be attributed to the poor PN junction that formed between the CTS and CdS layers and to the numerous recombinations at the CdS/ CTS interface [31]. However, except Tiwari et al all other researchers have reported V OC for CTS solar cells to be in the range of 0.104-0.241 V [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. The present report gives one of the better values of V OC for the CTS solar cells.…”

“…Furthermore, the control of composition and phase structure in CTS compounds is more convenient due to having fewer elements compared with the CZTS [8]. CTS have been reported to have a band gap energy range from 0.93 to 1.77 eV and to crystallize in a tetragonal, cubic sphalerite-like phase or in the monoclinic structure, with a sphalerite superstructure [9].…”

Influence of annealing temperature on the properties and solar cell performance of Cu2SnS3 (CTS) thin film prepared using sputtering method

“…The S 2p peaks located at 162 eV are consistent with the binding energy of S in the S -2 . Consequently, these XPS results suggest that Cu, Sn, and S are present in the ionic states of Cu + , Sn +4 , and S -2 , respectively[3,[21][22][23].A compositional study of the sulfurized CTS thin film was performed using X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy as shown inFig. 5.…”