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ReviewAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

The Rise of Chalcohalide Solar Cells: Comprehensive Insights From Materials to Devices.

Hongrui Zhang, Yiming Xia, Yangfan Zhang, Uma V Ghorpade, Mingrui He, Seung Wook Shin, Xiaojing Hao, Mahesh P Suryawanshi

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Review in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Photocorrosion, Protection, and Predictive Design in Solar Water Splitting.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026
    Review
  2. Overcoming Charge-Carrier Localization in Metal Chalcohalides.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
    Article
  3. CuChemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2026
    Article
  4. Silyl Hot-Injection Versus Thiocyanate Heat-Up Synthesis of Chalcohalides: Pushing the Size and Composition Envelope.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2026
    Article
  5. Tailoring optical and ferroelectric properties in SbJournal of materials chemistry. A · 2026
    Article
  6. The Rise of Chalcohalide Solar Cells: Comprehensive Insights From Materials to Devices.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Hongrui ZhangSchool of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3666-778X
Yiming XiaSchool of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.
Yangfan ZhangSchool of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.
Uma V GhorpadeSchool of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.
Mingrui HeSchool of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.
Seung Wook ShinFuture Agricultural Research Division, Rural Research Institute, Korea Rural Community Corporation, Ansan-si, 15634, Republic of Korea.
Xiaojing HaoSchool of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.
Mahesh P SuryawanshiSchool of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4711-7655

Funding

Australian Research Council FT190100756Discovery Early Career Researcher Award DE210101565Discovery Project DP230101676
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While lead-halide perovskites achieve high efficiencies, their toxicity and instability drive the search for safer materials. Chalcohalides, combining chalcogen and halogen anions in versatile structures, emerge as earth-abundant, nontoxic alternatives for efficient photovoltaic (PV) devices. A wide variety of chalcohalide materials, including pnictogen metals-, post-transition metals-, mixed-metals- and organic-inorganic metals-based chalcohalides, offer diverse structural, compositional, and optoelectronic characteristics. Some of these materials have already been experimentally synthesized and integrated into PV devices, achieving efficiencies of 4-6%, while others remain theoretically predicated. Despite these advancements, significant challenges must be addressed to fully realize the potential of chalcohalides as next-generation PV absorbers. This review provides a comprehensive insight of the fundamental properties of chalcohalide materials, emphasizing their unique structures, highly interesting optoelectronic and dielectric properties, to fuel further research and guide the development of high-efficiency chalcohalide solar cells. Various synthesis techniques are discussed, highlighting important and potentially overlooked strategies for fabricating complex quaternary and pentanary chalcohalide materials. Additionally, the working principles of different device structures and recent advances in fabricating efficient chalcohalide solar cells are covered. We hope that this review inspires further exciting research, innovative approaches, and breakthroughs in the field of chalcohalide materials.

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metal chalcohalidesperovskite‐inspired semiconductorssolar absorberthin film photovoltaics

Identifiers

PMID40244923
PMCPMC12097054

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