Scientists in South Africa have proposed a new chalcogenide perovskite solar cell design based on a compound known as barium zirconium sulfide. They tested different hole transport materials in the ...

The photovoltaic industry has witnessed a remarkable breakthrough with the advent of lead halide perovskite solar cells (LHPSCs), which have achieved outstanding power conversion efficiencies (PCEs); ...

Researchers in Sweden developed a bifacial chalcoprite solar cell using a titanium-doped indium oxide (ITiO) back contact, achieving 68% bifaciality. The device is able to maintain strong front-side ...

Chalcogenide glass thin films have emerged as a focal point in photonics and optoelectronics owing to their distinctive optical characteristics, including high refractive indices, broad infrared ...

Chalcogenide glass is widely used today in a number of specialist optics applications. Recent experiments with adding silver to the glass-forming materials that make chalcogenide glass have revealed ...

Chalcogenide glasses (ChGs) are an important class of amorphous semiconductors used in phase-change memories, solar cells, sensors and photonics. ChGs contain as a major constituent one or more of the ...

Imagine tires that charge a vehicle as it drives, streetlights powered by the rumble of traffic, or skyscrapers that generate electricity as the buildings naturally sway and shudder. These energy ...

New research conducted by scientists at Duke University has demonstrated how the use of chalcogenide glasses could be developed into a wider range of applications, including underwater communications, ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—Recent progress in chalcogenide glass photonics has been driven by scientific and technological challenges in a variety of areas. These range from increased demand for bandwidth in ...

Chalcogenide glass, made from sulfur, selenium, and tellurium, is ideal for infrared applications due to its superior infrared transmission, high refractive index, and exceptional nonlinearity. It ...

Chalcogenide RAM, made of the Ge2Sb2Te5 materials, has recently been regarded as the most promising next-generation memory. (Ge is germanium, Sb is antimony and Te is tellurium.) With a name derived ...

A metasurface made of arsenic trisulphide nanowires (yellow) transmits an incoming near-infrared frequency (red) as well as its third harmonic ultraviolet frequency (violet), which would normally be ...