Fabrication of 7.2% efficient CZTSSe solar cells using CZTS nanocrystals.

By Qijie Guo, Grayson M. Ford, W. Yang, B. Walker, E. Stach, H. Hillhouse, Rakesh Agrawal. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010

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Solar cell efficiency tables (Version 38) (2011, background): “5 eV, respectively [12], suggesting a mid-range composition for the record cell.”
Progress in Thin Film Solar Cells Based on (2011, background): “2%, and the cell did not show significant degradation in a one-month light soaking test [60].”
Improved performance of Ge‐alloyed CZTGeSSe thin‐film solar cells through control of elemental losses (2015, methodology): “However, one drawback to this approach has been the formation of a Se-rich “fine-grain” layer between the sintered CZTSSe layer and Mo back contact of the film [4,9], shown in Figure 1.”
Rapid annealing of reactively sputtered precursors for Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells (2014, methodology): “The CZTSSe literature to-date shows that the most successful methods do indeed adhere to these principles [5–7].”
Advances in nanostructured thin film materials for solar cell applications (2016, neutral): “Solar cell efficiency chart (2010-2015) [22-26]”
Thin film solar cell with 8.4% power conversion efficiency using an earth‐abundant Cu2ZnSnS4 absorber (2013, methodology): “Various approaches have been reported to fabricate Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) layers including thermal co-evaporation [3–5], sputtering [6,7], pulsed laser deposition [8], electroplating [9,10], and solution process [11,12].”