In this study, we define a synthetic parameter: optothermal expansivity as a quantitative guide to evaluating and optimizing both the thermal and the optical performance of PV–T functional materials. The definition of this parameter, ψ AB (Amlouk–Boubaker parameter), takes into account the thermal diffusivity and the optical effective absorptivity of the material. The values of this parameter, which seems to be a characteristic one, correspond to the total volume that contains a fixed amount of heat per unit time (m3 s-1) and can be considered as a 3D velocity of the transmitted heat inside the material. As the PV–T combined devices need to have simultaneous optical and thermal efficiency, we try to investigate some recently proposed materials (β- SnS 2, In 2 S 3, ZnS 1-x Se x|0 ≤x<0.5 and Zn -doped thioindate compounds) using the newly established ψ AB /Eg abacus.

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In this study, ZnSSe epilayers were grown on (111) ZnS sprayed thin films. The spectral analysis was carried out in the region from 400 to 1800 nm. Analyses of the transmittance and (or) reflectance spectra indicate a decrease of the band gap energy value Eg with selenization. As the selenization process changes the structure and property of prepared materials and therefore has a direct effect on their physical properties, one of the concerns of this paper is to investigate the depth-dependent composition changes as guides to monitoring the selenization kinetics. Photothermal, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) investigations have also been carried out.

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