Defect Engineering in Earth-Abundant Cu_(2)ZnSnSe_(4) Absorber Using Efficient Alkali Doping for Flexible and Tandem Solar Cell Applications

To demonstrate flexible and tandem device applications,a low-temperature Cu_(2)ZnSnSe_(4)(CZTSe)deposition process,combined with efficient alkali doping,was developed.First,high-quality CZTSe films were grown at 480℃by a single co-evaporation,which is applicable to polyimide(PI)substrate.Because of the alkali-free substrate,Na and K alkali doping were systematically studied and optimized to precisely control the alkali distribution in CZTSe.The bulk defect density was significantly reduced by suppression of deep acceptor states after the(NaF+KF)PDTs.Through the low-temperature deposition with(NaF+KF)PDTs,the CZTSe device on glass yields the best efficiency of 8.1%with an improved Voc deficit of 646 mV.The developed deposition technologies have been applied to PI.For the first time,we report the highest efficiency of 6.92%for flexible CZTSe solar cells on PI.Additionally,CZTSe devices were utilized as bottom cells to fabricate four-terminal CZTSe/perovskite tandem cells because of a low bandgap of CZTSe(~1.0 eV)so that the tandem cell yielded an efficiency of 20%.The obtained results show that CZTSe solar cells prepared by a low-temperature process with in-situ alkali doping can be utilized for flexible thin-film solar cells as well as tandem device applications.

DESIGN OF MULTIPLE-LOOP FEEDBACK HIGH-ORDER CURRENT-MODE FILTER BASED ON FTFNS

A general multiple-loop feedback approach for realization of Four-Terminal Floating Nullor RC(FTFN-RC) filter is presented.The proposed filter is constructed by multi-output FTFNs, capacitors and resistors.It can simultaneously realize slow-pass, band-pass(if order is even number), and high-pass filter responses.With RC elements grounded and requiring no component matching con-straints, it is fully integrated conveniently.Simulations are performed for the fourth-order Butterworth filter to verify the validity of the circuit.

Study on Parameters Selection of Oil-Based Mud Formation Imaging Tool (OBIT) Based on FEM

In a typical oil-based mud environment, the borehole fluid and mud cake are highly resistive and will not permit any significant current flow from the tool to the formation. In order to overcome the high insulation effect of the medium, measurement current must be injected at a relative high frequency since most of the conduction is due to capacitive coupling. In this paper, an OBIT numerical model based on four-terminal method was established to study the tool responses during the measurements. The influences of tool parameters, such as the area and distance of current-injector electrodes, inject frequency, distance of button sensors, standoff and electrical properties of borehole fluid, the tool responses, were investigated and the tool optimization was discussed.

Perovskite/silicon-based heterojunction tandem solar cells with 14.8%conversion efficiency via adopting ultrathin Au contact

A rising candidate for upgrading the performance of an established narrow-bandgap solar technology without adding much cost is to construct the tandem solar cells from a crystalline silicon bottom cell and a high open-circuit voltage top cell.Here,we present a four-terminal tandem solar cell architecture consisting of a selffiltered planar architecture perovskite top cell and a silicon heterojunction bottom cell.A transparent ultrathin gold electrode has been used in perovskite solar cells to achieve a semi-transparent device.The transparent ultrathin gold contact could provide a better electrical conductivity and optical reflectance-scattering to maintain the performance of the top cell compared with the traditional metal oxide contact.The four-terminal tandem solar cell yields an efficiency of 14.8%,with contributions of the top（8.98%）and the bottom cell（5.82%）,respectively.We also point out that in terms of optical losses,the intermediate contact of self-filtered tandem architecture is the uppermost problem,which has been addressed in this communication,and the results show that reducing the parasitic light absorption and improving the long wavelength range transmittance without scarifying the electrical properties of the intermediate hole contact layer are the key issues towards further improving the efficiency of this architecture device.