| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2022 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Alloys and Compounds for Thermoelectric and Solar Cell Applications X
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| Presentation Title |
Computational Understanding and Design of Carrier Lifetime in Solar Absorber Materials |
| Author(s) |
Geoffroy Hautier |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Geoffroy Hautier |
| Abstract Scope |
Current thin film solar cell technologies suffer from many drawbacks: low earth-abundance in Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2 (CIGS) or stability issues in organic-inorganic perovskite halides. My talk will focus first on recent work using high-throughput computational screening to identify new solar absorbers with exceptionally high carrier lifetime due to favorable defects. The second part of my talk will focus on the the eart-abundant CuZnSnS2 (CZTS) absorber. We will show using ab initio computations that Cu-Zn mixing in this material affects significantly lifetime through deep defect stabilization. I will conclude my talk outlining new avenues for future solar absorber research. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Energy Conversion and Storage, Computational Materials Science & Engineering, |