Efficient Sb2Se3/CdS Planar Heterojunction Solar Cells in Substrate Configuration with (hk0) Oriented Sb2Se3 Thin Films

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 712949 (TECNIOspring PLUS) and the Government of Catalonia's Agency for Business Competitiveness(ACCIÓ). This research was also supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under the WINCOST (ENE2016-80788-C5-1-R) project, and by the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF, FEDER Programa Competitivitat de Catalunya 2007-2013). Authors from IREC and the University of Barcelona belong to the SEMS (Solar Energy and Materials Systems) Consolidated Research Group of the 'Generalitat de Catalunya' (Ref. 2017 SGR 862). Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is very well acknowledged for funding the research activities at SRM IST through the project "Development of Lithium Ion Batteries and Computational Studies for Solar Absorber Layers, (Grant No. 31/03/2014-15/PVSE-R&D).