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Iron Pyrite (FeS2): Sustainable Photovoltaic Material

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Fool’s gold or Iron pyrite (FeS2) is a semiconductor comprised of earth-abundant elements that has the potential to be a low cost photovoltaic material with comparatively low toxicity. Despite its promise, photovoltaic modules containing FeS2 continue to show small photo-voltages which have limited power conversion efficiencies to around 3%. Bandgap engineering of pyrite by do** may help in increasing power conversion efficiency by increasing the portion of the solar spectrum absorbed. This may lead to the prospect of tandem device architectures that utilise pyrite as an intrinsic semiconductor

This chapter shadows the characteristics of iron pyrite as promising photovoltaic material. It elaborates the properties of iron pyrite (FeS2) and transition metal doped iron pyrite thin films fabricated by various physical and chemical deposition methods primarily via aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition (AACVD). At the end, this chapter provides a brief summary for the current status of pyrite to be used as cheap inexpensive photovoltaic material.

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  1. Department of Physics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan

    Sadia Khalid, E. Ahmed & M. Ramzan

  2. Nano Science and Technology Department, National Centre for Physics, Shahdra Valley Road, Quaid-i-Azam University Campus, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan

    Sadia Khalid, Yaqoob Khan & Saima Nawaz

  3. Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan

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  4. Department of Physics, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan

    N. R. Khalid

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Khalid, S. et al. (2018). Iron Pyrite (FeS2): Sustainable Photovoltaic Material. In: Jackson, M., Ahmed, W. (eds) Micro and Nanomanufacturing Volume II. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67132-1_11

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