KALAMAZOO – In a world concerned about the dwindling supply and skyrocketing prices of rare elements used to make semiconductors, an international team of scientists and engineers has demonstrated that a new material made from more abundant elements can be “tuned” to take their place for solar cell applications.
The findings of the team’s work, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.K. Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, are featured in a paper appearing in the latest edition of the journal Advanced Energy Materials.
Researchers from Western Michigan University, the University of Liverpool, University College London and Binghamton University have zeroed in on the compound ZnSnN2 — zinc tin nitride — and discovered an innovative tuning process that makes it a possible replacement for currently used materials.
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