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October 31, 2024
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Efficiency Limits of SnS Thin Film Solar Cells

Publicated to: Materials Focus. 7 (6): 807-813 - 2018-12-01 7(6), DOI: 10.1166/mat.2018.1589

Authors:

Baig, F; Khattak, YH; Soucase, BM; Beg, S; Khani, NAK
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COMSATS Inst Informat Technol Islamabad, Dept Comp Sci - Author
Fed Urdu Univ Arts Sci & Technol Islamabad, Dept Elect Engn - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, Dept Fis Aplicada, Sch Design Engn - Author
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Abstract

Tin sulfide (SnS) is a non-toxic and earth abundant material belonging to group IV-VI, and due to its optimum band gap has been considered as a suitable material for absorber layer in photovoltaic solar cell applications. However, despite its optimum band gap for photovoltaic conversion the maximum power conversion efficiency achieved up to now in experimental devices for SnS-based solar cell is only 4.6%, which is far below its related Shockley-Queisser limit. In this paper, the main photovoltaic parameters of a SnS/CdS/ZnO solar cell are analysed with the aid of MATLAB and Solar Cell Capacitance Simulator software (SCAPS). The expected efficiency for a SnS/CdS/ZnO solar cell structure composed by layers without defects is about 28%. However, the performance of SnS-based solar cell is highly dependent upon material properties like band tailing, temperature, thickness of the absorber material and defects in the absorber layer and in the interface buffer/absorber. The effect of the defects on the overall performance of SnS-based solar cells is calculated and discussed and the results are compared with reported experimental SnS/CdS solar cells.
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Keywords

Band tailDefectsEfficiency limitsNumerical-analysisScapsSnsSolar cellThermal evaporationTin sulfide

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-12-27:

  • WoS: 3
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-27:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 9 (PlumX).
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Pakistan.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Baig, F) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Khattak, Yousaf Hameed.

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