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ArticleNature communications2025

Doping with phosphorus reduces anion vacancy disorder in CdSeTe semiconductors enabling higher solar cell efficiency.

Darius Kuciauskas, Marco Nardone, Patrik Ščajev, Chun-Sheng Jiang, Dingyuan Lu, Rouin Farshchi

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Darius KuciauskasChemistry and Nanoscience Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA. Darius.Kuciauskas@nrel.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8091-5718
Marco NardoneDepartment of Physics, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4410-623X
Patrik ŠčajevInstitute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9588-0570
Chun-Sheng JiangMaterials Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.
Dingyuan LuCalifornia Technology Center, First Solar, Santa Clara, California, CA, USA.
Rouin FarshchiCalifornia Technology Center, First Solar, Santa Clara, California, CA, USA.

Funding

DOE | Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy | Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) 38525, 38257, 52778
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Doping is used in many pn junction devices, such as polycrystalline solar cells, to increase the strength of the junction field to assist charge carrier collection and thus partially mitigate nonradiative recombination losses. We demonstrate a different doping characteristic for inorganic solar cells: using dopants to reduce charge carrier trapping and electronic band tails. Alloying CdTe with Se to form CdSeTe semiconductor reduced recombination, but CdSeTe has more complex defect states which can limit further efficiency gains due to charge carrier trapping and trap-limited mobility. Doping CdSeTe with P (but not N, As, or Sb in this study) reduces band tails (Urbach energies) and lessens the impact of the near valence band trap states, with ambipolar mobilities improving to >50 cm

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PMID40998793
PMCPMC12462447

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