M. Khalid Hossain, Gazi Farhan Ishraque Toki, Dip Prakash Samajdar, Muhammad Mushtaq et al.
CsSnI3 is considered to be a viable alternative to lead (Pb)-based perovskite solar cells (PSCs) due to its suitable optoelectronic properties. The photovoltaic (PV) potential of CsSnI3 has not yet been fully explored due to its inherent difficulties in realizing defect-free device construction owin...
M. Khalid Hossain, Dip Prakash Samajdar, Ranjit Chandra Das, A. A. Arnab et al.
Lead-free Cs2BiAgI6 has garnered a lot of research interest recently due to its suitability as a potential absorber layer in the solar cell (SC) architecture owing to its low cost, good stability, and high efficiency. The main highlight of this research work includes the photovoltaic (PV) performanc...
M. Khalid Hossain, Mustafa K. A. Mohammed, Rahul Pandey, A. A. Arnab et al.
The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of cesium lead halide (CsPbX3, X = l, Br, and Cl)-based all-inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is still struggling to compete with conventional organic–inorganic halide perovskites. A combined material and device-related analysis is much needed to understan...
M. Khalid Hossain, Gazi Farhan Ishraque Toki, Intekhab Alam, Rahul Pandey et al.
Herein, we used TiO 2 as the ETL and CBTS as the HTL in a CsPbI 3 -based PSC and optimized it using SCAPS-1D software, where the final optimization of the device gave a maximum PCE of 19.06%.
M. M. Sheikh, N. Manzoor, Jafari Ali Ashraf, Muhammad Adnan et al.
Over the last few decades, weather and climate extremes have become a major focus of researchers, the media and general public due to their damaging effects on human society and infrastructure. Trends in indices of climate extremes are studied for the South Asian region using high-quality records of...
M. Khalid Hossain, Md. Shihab Uddin, Gazi Farhan Ishraque Toki, Mustafa K. A. Mohammed et al.
This study employs theoretical simulations to identify ways to improve the efficiency of CsSnI 3 -based perovskite solar cells with PCBM ETL. The optimized device with CFTS HTL with a structure of ITO/PCBM/CsSnI 3 /CFTS/Se shows the highest PCE of 24.73%.
M. Khalid Hossain, Gazi Farhan Ishraque Toki, Dip Prakash Samajdar, Mirza H. K. Rubel et al.
Cs3Bi2I9 as a solar absorber material is a strong contender for lead-free perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The presence of bismuth (Bi) in Cs3Bi2I9 leads to the origin of interesting optoelectronic properties along with a suitable optical band gap and high absorption coefficient. However, further anal...
M. Khalid Hossain, Sagar Bhattarai, A. A. Arnab, Mustafa K. A. Mohammed et al.
Here we have done SCAPS simulation for optimizing the performance of CsPbBr 3 -based PSC. We first optimized the BMC with HTL connected mode and then optimized the CsPbBr 3 , TiO 2 , & CFTS layers' various parameters in both with-HTL and without-HTL modes.
Rahul Pandey, Sagar Bhattarai, Kulbhushan Sharma, Jaya Madan et al.
Since the conversion efficiency of silicon (Si)-based solar cells stagnates at 26.7% in the literature, extensive research and development activities are carried out on perovskite silicon-based tandem solar cells. However, the presence of lead (Pb) and the instability of perovskite prevent their lar...
M. Khalid Hossain, Gazi Farhan Ishraque Toki, Abdul Kuddus, Mustafa K. A. Mohammed et al.
Sagar Bhattarai, M. Khalid Hossain, Rahul Pandey, Jaya Madan et al.
The present work represents a comparative modeling and performance optimization of three device configurations: ITO/ZnO/Cs2BiAgI6/Spiro-OMeTAD/Au, ITO/ZnO/CIGS/Spiro-OMeTAD/Au, and ITO/ZnO/Cs2BiAgI6/CIGS/Spiro-OMeTAD/Au. The concern of low light absorption by materials such as Cs2BiAgI6 and CIGS lim...
M. Khalid Hossain, A. A. Arnab, Dip Prakash Samajdar, Mirza H. K. Rubel et al.
Nontoxic and inorganic lead-free double perovskite La2NiMnO6 (LNMO) has achieved tremendous attention as an absorber layer of a solar cell (SC) structure due to its outstanding optoelectronic properties to support photovoltaic (PV) applications. In order to check the feasibility of LNMO as a potenti...
Md. Shamim Reza, Md. Ferdous Rahman, Abdul Kuddus, Mustafa K. A. Mohammed et al.
Strontium antimony iodide (Sr 3 SbI 3 ) is one of the emerging absorbers materials owing to its intriguing structural, electronic, and optical properties for efficient and cost-effective solar cell applications.
Nikhil Shrivastav, Savita Kashyap, Jaya Madan, Ali K. Al-Mousoi et al.
Tandem solar cells have higher efficiency than single-junction devices owing to their wide photon absorption range. A wide band gap (Eg) absorber absorbs the higher-energy photons in the top cell. In contrast, a comparatively low band gap absorber material is utilized in the bottom cell to absorb th...
M. Khalid Hossain, Gazi Farhan Ishraque Toki, Jaya Madan, Rahul Pandey et al.
A comparative analysis along with the optimization of various parameters for 8 different Cs-halide perovskite absorber-based solar cells is performed using a SCAPS-1D simulator, where ZnO and CFTS are proposed as ETL and HTL materials, respectively.
J. V. Revadekar, Sultan Hameed, Daniel S. Collins, M. J. Manton et al.
Abstract South Asia covers more than 30° of latitude with weather observation stations situated from 6°N at Galle, Sri Lanka, to 36°N at Chitral in Pakistan. Moreover, the South Asian station network ranges in altitude from sea level to nearly 4000 m above sea level. This paper uses time series of 1...
Md. Ferdous Rahman, Md. Harun‐Or‐Rashid, Md. Rasidul Islam, Avijit Ghosh et al.
Abstract Inorganic perovskite materials have drawn great attention in the realm of solar technology because of their remarkable structural, electronic, and optical properties. Herein, we investigated strain-modulated electronic and optical properties of Sr 3 PI 3 , utilizing first-principles density...
Ali K. Al-Mousoi, Mustafa K. A. Mohammed, Anjan Kumar, Rahul Pandey et al.
The effects of Auger capture coefficients in mixed-cation perovskites are analyzed employing SCAPS-1D simulations.
Mustafa K. A. Mohammed, Ali K. Al-Mousoi, Anjan Kumar, Michael M. Sabugaa et al.
Sagar Bhattarai, M. Khalid Hossain, Rahul Pandey, Jaya Madan et al.
Perovskite photovoltaics have an immense contribution toward the all-round development of the solar cell. Apart from the flexibility, stability, and high efficiency, more stress has been given to using lead-free as well as eco-friendly, inexpensive materials in the fabrication of PSC devices. The ut...