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Qijie Guo1, Hugh W Hillhouse, Rakesh Agrawal
1School of Chemical Engineering and the Energy Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|September 3, 2009
Abstract:
Cu(2)ZnSnS(4) (CZTS) and Cu(2)ZnSnSe(4) (CZTSe) based solar cells are promising candidates for low cost solar cells due to the natural abundance and low toxicity of the constituent elements. Here, we present the first reported synthesis of colloidal CZTS nanocrystals using a simple solution-phase method. Solar cells fabricated using selenized CZTS nanocrystal inks had a power conversion efficiency of 0.74% under AM1.5G illumination.
