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Numerical simulation for the high efficient performance signature of TO/ZnO/In2S3/WS2/CZTS based solar cell structure

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Copper zinc tin sulphur (CZTS) based solar cells (SCs) became a suitable thin film-based photovoltaic device due to their non-toxic constituents and abundance in nature. The high absorption coefficient with a tunable band gap makes it a suitable material for the next-generation-based SCs. CZTS-based SC models demonstrate higher performance. The overall tuning of CZTS-based SCs to improve efficiency is quite difficult. The overall optimization is addressed by considering both the band gap and thickness of the CZTS layer and buffer layers. This study addresses a novel method of using two materials as buffer layers to enhance cell efficiency. The device performance has been improved based on bi-layer buffer materials proposed in this study. The present study uses a SCAPS-1D SC simulator to numerically investigate CZTS/WS2/In2S3-based SC structures, including ZnO as the window layer and CZTS as the absorber layer. The overall optimization has been considered by taking the contour plots among thickness vs. band gap and bandgap vs. band gap. The device’s efficiency is recorded as 22.96% when the optimum values of the buffer layer are considered. This work reveals a new idea to fabricate a highly efficient SC based on CZTS material for the next-generation photovoltaic device.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research at Umm Al-Qura University for supporting this work by Grant Code: (22UQU4340560DSR16). We acknowledge VIT AP University for permitting to carry out this work. We are thankful to Dr. Marc Burgelman for providing the SCAPS-1D software freely for the implementation of the models. We extend our appreciation and gratitude to Al-Mustaqbal University College in Iraq for funding this project.

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  1. School of Electronics Engineering, VIT-AP University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, 522237, India

    Pratap Kumar Dakua & Deepak Kumar Panda

  2. Medical Instrumentation Techniques Engineering Department, Al-Mustaqbal University College, Hilla, 51001, Iraq

    Baraa Riyadh Altahan

  3. Elearning Deanship and Distance Education, Umm Al-Qura University, 24381, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

    Lassaad K Smirani

  4. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and IT, Institute of Theoretical Electrical Engineering, Ruhr University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany

    MD Amzad Hossain

  5. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Jashore University of Science and Technology, Jashore, 7408, Bangladesh

    MD Amzad Hossain

  6. Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department, Menoufia University, Menouf, 32951, Egypt

    Ahmed Nabih Zaki Rashed

  7. Department of VLSI Microelectronics, Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Saveetha School of Engineering, SIMATS, Chennai, 602105, India

    Ahmed Nabih Zaki Rashed

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Dakua, P.K., Panda, D.K., Altahan, B.R. et al. Numerical simulation for the high efficient performance signature of TO/ZnO/In2S3/WS2/CZTS based solar cell structure. Bull Mater Sci 46, 78 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12034-023-02925-3

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