ArticleFaraday discussions2022
Impact of metastable defect structures on carrier recombination in solar cells.
Article in Faraday discussions, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Defect-Limited Efficiency of Pnictogen Chalcohalide Solar Cells.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Structural and Electronic Reconstruction of Extended Defects in Pnictogen Chalcohalides.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2026Article
- Defect Tolerance via External Passivation in the Photocatalyst SrTiOJournal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- An investigation of hole transport layers and electron transport layers to produce highly efficient KScientific reports · 2025Article
- Multifaceted nature of defect tolerance in halide perovskites and emerging semiconductors.Nature reviews. Chemistry · 2025Review
- Sulfur Vacancies Limit the Open-Circuit Voltage of SbACS energy letters · 2025Article
- A comprehensive review of flexible cadmium telluride solar cells with back surface field layer.Heliyon · 2023Review
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Abstract
The efficiency of a solar cell is often limited by electron-hole recombination mediated by defect states within the band gap of the photovoltaic (PV) semiconductor. The Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) model considers a static trap that can successively capture electrons and holes. In reality however, true trap levels vary with both the defect charge state and local structure. Here we consider the role of metastable structural configurations in capturing electrons and holes, taking the tellurium interstitial in CdTe as an illustrative example. Consideration of the defect dynamics, and symmetry-breaking, changes the qualitative behaviour and activates new pathways for carrier capture. Our results reveal the potential importance of metastable defect structures in non-radiative recombination, in particular for semiconductors with anharmonic/ionic-covalent bonding, multinary compositions, low crystal symmetries or highly-mobile defects.
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