Study of Structural and Optical Properties of CZTSSe Nanoparticle

for Solar Cell Application

Presented By:
Sadanand
Email: sadanand2893@gmail.com

Department of Physics and Material Science

Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology Gorakhpur-273010 ,U.P. (India)
 Brief Outline of Presentation
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➢ Motivation
➢ Introduction
➢ Synthesis Methodology
➢ Material characterization
➢ Conclusion
 Motivation
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➢ Global markets are looking for low cost material that satisfy solar cell
requirements.

➢ Renewables avoid the rapid depletion of fossil fuel reserves and will empower
future generations to deal with the environmental impact of over-dependence on
fossil fuels.

➢ CZTSSe semiconducting materials offer a clear path for new product development
and high technological application due to their unique properties.

➢ Raw materials are about five times cheaper than those for CIGS, and estimates of
global material reserves (for Cu, Sn, Zn, S and Se) suggest we could produce
enough energy to power the world with only 0.1% of the available raw material
resources

➢ However, much effort is still needed to have these CZTSSe for commercial uses.
 Introduction 3
Thin Film Solar Limitations :
Absorber Materials
• High cost of the Indium and gallium elements.

• Toxicity of cadmium element in mass production of

CdTe a-Si CuInGaSe2 the solar cells.

CIGS and CdTe based Thin

Film Photovoltaic Technology

TFPV modules at low cost and with

less consumption of absorber
materials

Natural abundance of elements used in absorber layers TFPV

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleHtml/2014/CC/c4cc03176h
Instruments Used for Preparation of CZTSSe Materials 4

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 Flow Chart of Hydrothermal Synthesis Process
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Balanced reaction
2CuCl2.2H2O+ZnCl2+SnCl2.2H2O + 4Na2S.9H2O+ 4SeO2

Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 +8NaCl + 42H2O +4O2

Thin Film Deposition by Thermal Evaporation Method 6
➢ The thermal evaporation process
consists of evaporating and
condensing processes in a vacuum
(≈1×10-5 millibar) chamber.

➢ Firstly, source materials are

evaporated by the heated source,
which is maintaining a few cm
distances from a substrate.

➢ Then, evaporated particles are

condensed on the substrate.

➢ Thickness of the thin film was

measured by quartz crystal
thickness monitor attached in
vacuum coating unit.
 Material Characterization 7
➢ XRD Analysis

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➢ Raman, EDS and SEM Analysis
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➢ Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) Analysis
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Element Intensity Atomic% Composition ratio

Cu L 0.7447 28.80 Cu/(Zn+Sn) = 1.15

Zn L 0.3821 12.56 Zn/Sn = 1.01

Sn L 0.7996 12.43 Se/(Cu+Zn+Sn) = 0.19

SK 0.8845 35.72 S/(Cu+Zn+Sn) = 0.66

Se L 0.4617 10.49 Se/(Se+S) = 0.23

Totals 100.0
➢ Ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) Spectrophotometry 10

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Conclusion
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 Some Our Recent Publications 12
1. Theoretical investigation on enhancement of output performance of CZTSSe based solar cell
Sadanand, D.K. Dwivedi
Solar Energy, Vol.193 (2019) pp. 442-451
ISSN: 0038-092X, Impact Factor: 4.674
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2019.09.079
2. Modeling of CZTSSe solar photovoltaic cell for window layer optimization
Sadanand, D.K. Dwivedi
Optik, 222 (2020) p.165407.
ISSN: 0030-4026, Impact Factor: 2.187 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2020.165407
3. Numerical modeling for earth-abundant highly efficient solar photovoltaic cell of non-toxic buffer layer
Sadanand, D.K. Dwivedi
Optical Materials, 108(2020), p.110409
ISSN: 0925-3467, Impact Factor: 2.779 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2020.110409
4. Optimization of photovoltaic solar cell performance via the earth-abundant Zn3P2 back surface field
Sadanand, Puli Sunny Babu, P. K. Singh, A. K. Thakur, D.K.Dwivedi
Optik, ISSN: 0030-4026, (2021) Impact Factor: 2.187

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