Synthesis and characterization of copper sulfide thin films for quantum dot sensitized solar cell and supercapacitor applications

Potential transition and post-transition metal sulfides as efficient electrodes for energy storage applications: review

“…Huang et al , 66 Marimuthu et al , 69 Zhang et al , 68 and Zhai et al 70 reported the electrochemical performance of hydrothermally synthesized CuS. As shown in Fig.…”

“…[127][128][129] CuS has been synthesized by various methods such as solvothermal method, hydrothermal method, CBD, and CVD. Here, we focus on the solvothermal 63,64 and hydrothermal 66,69,70 26a. It can be observed that these CV curves deviate from the ideal rectangular shape, signifying the pseudocapacitive behavior.…”

“…127–129 CuS has been synthesized by various methods such as solvothermal method, hydrothermal method, CBD, and CVD. Here, we focus on the solvothermal 63,64 and hydrothermal 66,69,70 synthesis of CuS only. Huang et al and Peng et al used the solvothermal method to synthesize CuS-based electrode materials.…”

Novel approaches and scalability prospects of copper based hole transporting materials for planar perovskite solar cells

“…Owing to its high electrocatalytic activity, CuS has been widely used as a counter electrode in high PCE solar cells, mainly quantum dot and dye sensitized solar cells, while it has also been proposed as a potential p-type absorber for thin film solar cells and as an interfacial layer for PSCs. [110][111][112][113] Cu sulfide (Cu x S, 1 r x r 2) has been found to form p-type transparent films and show beneficial electrical and optical properties. So far the Cu-deficient phase CuS and the mixedphase Cu x S have only been employed as HTMs in normal structure PSCs; however the research findings foretell that there is still potential for their implementation in the inverted structure as well.…”

Facile Sulfurization under Ambient Condition with Na2S to Fabricate Nanostructured Copper Sulfide

“…Particularly, due to their stoichiometry-dependent band gap, copper sulfide nanomaterials have shown great potential as advanced p-type semiconductors in various applications with unique optical properties [ 25 , 26 ]. By controlling the compositions, sizes, crystalline phases, and morphologies of nanostructured copper sulfides, excellent performance [ 27 ] has been achieved in photocatalysis [ 28 ], energy conversion [ 29 ], optoelectronic devices [ 3 ], and biomedicine [ 27 ]. Nanostructured copper sulfides can adopt a variety of compositions with two stable phases at room temperature: chalcocite (Cu 2 S) for Cu-rich phases and covellite (CuS) for Cu-deficient phases.…”