p-Type CuSbS2 thin films by thermal diffusion of copper into Sb2S3

AgSbS2 and Ag3SbS3 absorber materials for photovoltaic applications

“…By comparing the results, the present results show higher conductivity value (1.01 mho cm À1 ) than that of the earlier report for CuSbS 2 film by G. Garza et al [20]. Fig 9 (a, b) shows the photo I-V characteristics of ITO: AgSbS 2 / CdS and ITO: Ag 3 SbS 3 /CdS thin films, photo I-V profile exhibit ohmic behaviour for both dark and illumination (visible light) conditions.…”

“…However, Indium is a rare earth element and its cost also higher than other materials. So the researchers were replaced this indium by antimony, which is less toxic, low-cost element compares to indium and earth abundant material and nearly equal ionic radius of In (In 3þ ¼ 0.80 Å, Sb 3þ ¼ 0.90 Å) [3]. AgSb-S is an emerging semiconductor, which is considered as a highlight absorbing material for sustainable and scalable photovoltaic compared to those of AgInS 2 and CIGS [4].…”

Characterization of Cu3SbS3 thin films grown by thermally diffusing Cu2S and Sb2S3 layers

“…In the literature, fabrication of the copper antimony sulfide thin films are found using both physical and chemical deposition techniques such has thermal evaporation [13][14][15], thermal diffusion [16], spin coating [17], chemical bath deposition [18], spray pyrolysis [19], electrochemical deposition [20,21] and hybrid inks method [22], etc. For example, Rabhi et al reported the copper antimony sulfide films fabricated via a thermal evaporation technique [13,14].…”

Two-stage co-evaporated CuSbS2 thin films for solar cells

“…CuSbS 2 thin films have been synthesized by various techniques such as electro-deposition [4,9], magnetron sputtering [10], spin coating [11e13], spray pyrolysis [14], single-source thermal evaporation [15,16], thermal diffusion [17,18], chemical bath deposition [19], etc. However, there are only a few reports on the solar cells with CuSbS 2 absorber.…”