Research

CdS-free non-toxic thin-flm solar cell structure with antimony sulfde (Sb2S3) as an absorber material. Sb2S3 has found to be a promising candidate for production of renewable energy. Solar cells based on Sb2S3 have been attracted worldwide attraction due to their outstanding efciency and low cost. To serve as an optimistic bufer layer, 3C-SiC (cubic silicon carbide) is used thanks to its suitable bandgap to replace toxic cadmium sulfde (CdS). SCAPS-1D (one-dimensional solar cell capacitance simulator) software has been employed to numerically investigate the performance of Sb2S3-based n-ZnO/n-3C-SiC/p-Sb2S3 heterostructure solar cells. The infuence of absorber/bufer layer thickness, acceptor/ donor densities, and defect density on device working have been investigated. Consequently, the role of defects in p-Sb2S3 along with the signifcance of n-3C-SiC/p-Sb2S3 interface defects has been studied to provide recommendations for achieving high efciency. The proposed structure provides the enhanced efciency of 17% under 1.5 G illumination spectrum. The parameters regarding solar cell performance such as Voc, Jsc, FF, QE and ?? have been studied graphically. This novel structure may have considerable infuence on progress of improved photovoltaic devices in future.

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