Synthesis and characterization of Cu2ZnSnS4 absorber layers by an electrodeposition-annealing route

By J. Scragg, P. Dale, L. Peter. 2009

247 citations recorded by the source corpus.

An electrodeposition-annealing route to films of the promising p-type absorber material Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) using layered metal precursors is studied. The dependence of device performance on composition is investigated, and it is shown that a considerable Cu-deficiency is desirable to produce effective material, as measured by photoelectrochemical measurements employing the Eu3+/2+ redox couple. The differing effects of using elemental sulphur and H2S as sulphur sources during annealing are also studied, and it is demonstrated that H2S annealing results in films with improved crystallinity.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0a810e5ef02884337727232955062b75db6ef608

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Yafei Zhang
2. Yanyan Wang
3. Zhihua Zhou
4. Dong Xu

In Materials Chemistry

1. Yafei Zhang
2. Yanyan Wang
3. Zhihua Zhou
4. Dong Xu

Citations in the corpus

• Fabrication of Cu2ZnSnS4 screen printed layers for solar cells (2010, methodology): “To date, CZTS thin films or layers have been prepared by many experimental techniques such as atom beam sputtering [3], electron-beam-evaporated precursors [4], photo-chemical deposition [5], spray pyrolysis technique [6], spray deposition technique [7], hybrid sputtering [8], radio frequency magnet”