Name:José Arturo Morales-Acevedo Born:Oaxaca, Oaxaca; México. Current Position:Full Professor (3-E) of Electrical Engineering at CINVESTAV -
IPN (since 1983) and National Research Fellow (Emeritus). Graduate Degrees:Ph. D. in Electrical
Engineering (CINVESTAV - IPN, México), M. Sc. in Physics (Purdue
University, USA),
and M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering (CINVESTAV-IPN, México). Bachelor's Degree:Electrical Engineering
(ESIME-IPN, México). Publications in Refereed Scientific Journals and
Proceedings: 193 Google
h-index: 37 Publications in National Journals and Proceedings: 69 Technical Reports:21 Participation as speaker in International and
National Conferences: 214
Ph. D. Thesis
directed: 15 M. Sc. Thesis directed: 16 (+1 in progress) B. Sc. Thesis directed:9
Edited books: “Photovoltaics
Beyond Silicon”, Edited by S. Sundaram, V. Subramaniam, R. P. Rafaelle,
M. K. Nazeeruddin, A. Morales-Acevedo, M. Bernechea-Navarro and A. F.
Hepp, ELSEVIER (2024), ISBN 978-0-323-90188-8; “Solar
Cells - Research and Application Perspectives”, Edited by Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, INTECH (2013), ISBN 978-953-51-1003-3.
DISTINCTIONS
AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:Currently I am a Fellow of the Mexican System for
Scientific Research (Emeritus). I am Associate Editor for Solar
Energy Journal (Elsevier) and Journal of Electronic Materials
(Springer). I am a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). I received one "Cátedra
Patrimonial" for doing research at the Benemérita Universidad
Autónoma de Puebla (1998-1999). I have been Referee for
Journal of Applied Physics, Solar Energy, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
and Progress in Photovoltaics, Materials Research Bulletin, Journal of Physics
and Chemistry of Solids, Thin Solid
Films. I am a member of the
Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC), Sigma-Xi, the Academy of Sciences of New York, IEEE and International Solar Energy Society (ISES). As a
Research Engineer at Motorola de México, together with a team of 6
engineers, I won the First place of the Customer Satisfaction Showcase in
1998 for improving the yield of a power semiconductor device. Ireceived
a David Ross Fellowship as a graduate student at Purdue University.
OTHER
ACTIVITIES: I have organized two
International Conferences and one International Workshop in addition to three
national scientific conferences. I was the Editor for the publications of the
Electrical Engineering Department of CINVESTAV-IPN. I was the Secretary for
Physics-Industry Relations of the Sociedad Mexicana de Física (2000-2002).
I have evaluated research projects for the Mexican Council of Science and
Technology (CONACyT) and UNAM, for the Argentinian Ministry of Science and
Technology (MINCyT), COLCIENCIAS in Colombia and for the Panama SENACyT. I have
done research at University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France), at the
National University of Colombia and at the University of Havana (Cuba). Also, I
have been consultant for different companies related with Semiconductor
Devices, Solar Cell Technology and Photovoltaics.
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER
REVIEWED JOURNALS (since year 2000):
G.
Santana and Arturo Morales-Acevedo, "Optimization of PECVD
SiN:H films for silicon solar cells", Solar Energy Materials and
Solar Cells 60 (2), 135 (2000).
R.
Ferro, J. A. Rodriguez, O. Vigil, Arturo Morales-Acevedo and G. Contreras-Puente,
"F-doped CdO thin films deposited by spray pyrolysis", Physica
Status Solidi (a) 177 (2), 477 (2000).
O.
Vigil, L. Vaillant, F. Cruz, G. Santana, Arturo Morales-Acevedo and
G. Contreras-Puente,"Spray pyrolysis deposition of cadmium-zinc oxide
thin films", Thin Solid Films 361-362, 53 (2000).
G.
Contreras-Puente, O. Vigil, M. Ortega-López, Arturo Morales-Acevedo,
J. Vidal and M. L. Albor-Aguilera, "New window materials used as
heterojunction partners on CdTe Solar Cells", Thin Solid Films
361-362, 378 (2000).
G.
Santana, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, A. Martel and L. Hernández,
"Gettering Effects by Aluminum upon the dark and illuminated I-V
characteristics of n+-p-p+ Silicon Solar Cells", Solar Energy
Materials and Solar Cells 62 (4), 369 (2000).
O.
Vigil, F. Cruz, G. Santana, L. Vaillant, Arturo Morales-Acevedo and
G. Contreras-Puente, "Influence of post thermal annealing on the
properties of sprayed cadmium-zinc oxide thin films", Applied Surface
Science 161, 27 (2000).
G.
Santana, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, O. Vigil, L. Vaillant, F. Cruz and
G. Contreras-Puente, "Structural and optical properties of
(ZnO)x(CdO)1-x thin films obtained by spray pyrolysis", Thin Solid
Films 373, 235 (2000).
M.
Ortega-López, G. Santana and Arturo Morales-Acevedo,
"Optoelectronic Properties of CdO/Si Photodetectors",
Solid-State Electronics 44, 1765 (2000).
E.
Morales-Sánchez, J. González-Hernández, R. Ramírez-Bon, F.
Espinoza-Beltrán, Y. Boroviev, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, P. Gorley,
Z. Kovalyuk and P. Horley, “CdTe and Si Solar Cell Performance Comparison
in a New System for Solar Energy Conversión and Storage”, Modern Physics
Letters B 15, Nos. 17, 18 & 19, 597 (2001).
G.
Santana and Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Improving n+ p p+ Single
Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells by Long High Temperature Al Annealing”
Modern Physics Letters B 15, Nos. 17, 18 & 19, 601 (2001).
A.
Ponce-Pedraza, J. Carrillo-López and Arturo Morales-Acevedo,
“Poole-Frenkel Electrical Conduction in Silicon Oxynitride Deposited by
Low Pressure Chemical Vapour Deposition” Modern Physics Letters B 15, Nos.
17, 18 & 19, 621 (2001).
O.
Vigil, F. Cruz, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, G. Contreras-Puente, L.
Vaillant, and G. Santana, “Structural and optical properties of annealed
CdO thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis”, Materials Chemistry and
Physics 68 (1-3), 249 (2001).
Mauricio
Ortega-López, Arturo Morales-Acevedo and Omar Solorza-Feria,
“Physical properties of AgInS2 films prepared by chemical spray
pyrolysis”, Thin Solid Films 385 (1-2), 120 (2001).
Osvaldo
Vigil-Galán, Lídice Vaillant, Rogelio Mendoza-Pérez, Gerardo
Contreras-Puente, Julio Vidal-Larramendi and Arturo Morales-Acevedo,
“Influence of the growth conditions and postdeposition treatments upon the
grain boundary barrier height of CdTe thin films deposited by Close
Space Vapor Transport”, Journal of Applied Physics 90 (7), 3427 (2001).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, Guillermo
Santana and Jesús Carrillo-López, “Thermal Oxidation of Silicon in Nitrous
Oxide at High Pressures”, Journal of the Electrochemical Society 148 (10),
F200-F202 (2001).
René
Ferro, José Antonio Rodríguez, Osvaldo Vigil and Arturo Morales-Acevedo,
“Chemical composition and electrical conduction mechanism for CdO:F thin
films deposited by spray pyrolysis”, Materials Science & Engineering B
87 (1), 83 (2001).
H.
Hernández-Contreras, G. Contreras-Puente, J. Aguilar-Hernández, Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, J. Vidal-Larramendi and O. Vigil-Galan, “CdS and CdTe
Large Area Thin Films Processed by Radio-Frequency Planar-Magnetron
Sputtering”, Thin Solid Films 403-404 (1), 148 (2002).
M. A.
García-Hurtado, Arturo Morales-Acevedo and Jesús Carrillo-López,
“Stacking Fault Growth Kinetics During Thermal Oxidation of Silicon in N2O
at High Temperatures and Pressures”, Journal of the Electrochemical
Society 149 (7), F73-F75 (2002).
F.
Cruz-Gandarilla, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, O. Vigil, M.
Hesiquio-Garduño, L. Vaillant and G. Contreras-Puente, “Micro-structural characterization
of annealed cadmium-zinc oxide thin films obtained by Spray Pyrolysis”,
Materials Chemistry and Physics 78 (3), 840-846 (2003).
J.
Aguilar-Hernández, G.
Contreras-Puente, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, O. Vigil-Galán, F.
Cruz-Gandarilla, J. Vidal-Larramendi, A.
Escamilla-Esquive, H. Hernández-Contreras, M. Hesiquio-Garduño, A.
Arias-Carbajal, M. Chavarría-Castañeda and G. Arriaga-Mejía,
“Photoluminescence and Structural Properties of CdS Thin Films Grown by
Different Techniques”, Semiconductor Science and Technology 18 (2),
111-115 (2003).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, Guillermo
Santana and Eric Morales-Tzompa, “Electronic Conduction in SiO2:N
Thin Films Grown by Thermal Oxidation of Silicon in N2O”, Thin
Solid Films 436 (2), 477-480 (2003).
J.
A. Godines, A. Villegas, Yu Kudriavtsev, R. Asomoza, Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, A. Escamilla, G. Arriaga, H. Hernández-Contreras, G.
Contreras-Puente, J. Vidal, M. Chavarría and R. Fragoso-Soriano,
“Comparative secondary ion mass spectroscopy analysis of solar cell
structures grown by pulsed laser ablation and ion sputtering”, Semiconductor
Science and Technology 19, 213 (2004).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Comment on growth kinetics of oxides during furnace
oxidation of silicon in N2O ambient”, Journal of Applied Physics 95 (4),
2192 (2004).
O.
Vigil-Galán, G. Santana-Rodríguez, J. Vidal-Larramendi, G.
Contreras-Puente, R. Mendoza-Perez, M. Hernández-Bojórquez y Arturo
Morales Acevedo, "Influencia del tratamiento térmico con CdCl2
sobre las características finales de las celdas solares CdS/CdTe
procesadas por transporte de vapor en espacio cercano", Revista
Mexicana de Física 50 (4), 353-357 (2004).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, G. Francisco
Pérez-Sánchez and Marco A. García-Hurtado, “On the role of O2
during the thermal oxynitridation of silicon in N2O at high
pressure and temperature”, Semiconductor Science and Technology 19,
1207-1212 (2004).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Diseño Óptimo y
Realización de Celdas Solares de Silicio para Producción Industrial -
Estado del Arte de la
Investigación en México”, Revista Mexicana de Física 50
(5), 431-442 (2004).
R.
Mendoza-Pérez, G. Santana-Rodríguez, J. Sastre-Hernández, Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, A. Arias-Carbajal, O. Vigil-Galan and G.
Contreras-Puente, “Effects of thiourea concentration on CdS thin films
grown by Chemical Bath Deposition for CdTe solar cells”, Thin Solid Films
480-481, 173-176 (2005).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Comment on
‘The photocapacitor: An efficient self-charging capacitor for direct
storage of solar energy’ [Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 (17), 3932 (2004)]”, Appl.
Phys. Lett. 86, 196101 (2005).
O.
Vigil-Galán, A. Arias-Carbajal, R. Mendoza-Pérez, E. Moreno-García,G. Contreras-Puente and Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Improving the efficiency of CdS/CdTe solar cells by
varying the thiourea/CdCl2 ratio in the CdS Chemical Bath”,
Semiconductor Science and Technology 20, 819-822 (2005).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Physical Basis
for the Design of CdS/CdTe thin film Solar Cells”, Solar Energy Materials
and Solar Cells 90, 678-685 (2006).
J. N.
Ximello-Quiebras, G. Contreras-Puente, G. Rueda-Morales, G.
Santana-Rodríguez and Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Properties of CdS
thin films grown by CBD as a function of thiourea concentration”, Solar
Energy Materials and Solar Cells 90, 727-732 (2006).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Editorial of
the Solar Renewable Energy News International Conference
(SREN-2005) special issue”, Solar Energy 627-628 (2006).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Thin Film
CdS/CdTe Solar Cells: Research Perspectives”, Solar Energy 675-681 (2006).
R. Mendoza-Pérez, J.
Aguilar-Hernández, J. Sastre-Hernández, N. Ximello-Quiebras, G.
Contreras-Puente, G. Santana-Rodríguez, O. Vigil-Galán, E. Moreno-García
and Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Photoluminescence characteristics of
CdS layers deposited in a chemical bath and their correlation to CdS/CdTe
solar cell performance”, Solar Energy 682-686 (2006).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Can we improve
the record efficiency of CdS/CdTe solar cells?”, Solar Energy Materials
and Solar Cells 90, 2213-2220 (2006).
O.
Vigil-Galán, A. Arias-Carbajal, R. Mendoza-Pérez, G. Santana, J.
Sastré-Hernández, G. Contreras-Puente, Arturo Morales-Acevedo and
M. Tufiño-Velázquez, ”Spectral response of CdS/CdTe solar cells obtained
with different S/Cd ratios for the CdS chemical bath”, Solar Energy
Materials and Solar Cells 90, 2221-2227 (2006).
37.E.
Pincik, H. Kobayashi, J. Rusnak, M. Takahashi, R. Brunner, M. Jergel, Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, L. Ortega, J. Kakos, “Passivation of Si and a-Si:H
surfaces by thin oxide and oxy-nitride layers”, Applied Surface Science 252,
7713-7721 (2006).
O. Vigil-Galán, E. Sánchez-Meza, C. M. Ruiz, J.
Sastré-Hernández, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, F. Cruz-Gandarilla, J.
Aguilar-Hernández, E. Saucedo, G. Contreras-Puente, V. Bermúdez, “Physical
properties of Bi doped CdTe thin films grown by CSVT and their influence
on the CdS/CdTe solar cells PV-properties”, Thin Solid Films 515,
5819–5823 (2007).
O. Vigil-Galán, Arturo Morales-Acevedo,
F. Cruz-Gandarilla, M. G. Jiménez-Escamilla, J. Aguilar-Hernández, G.
Contreras-Puente, J. Sastré-Hernández, E. Sánchez-Meza, M. L.
Ramón-Garcia, “Characterization of CBD–CdS layers with different S/Cd
ratios in the chemical bath and their relation with the efficiency of
CdS/CdTe solar cells”, Thin Solid Films 515, 6085–6088 (2007).
Arturo Morales-Acevedo, Osvaldo Vigil-Galán, Jorge
Aguilar-Hernández, Miguel Tufiño-Velázquez, Estela Calixto and Gerardo
Contreras-Puente, “Current research of CdS thin films for their
application to solar cells”, chapter in the book: Focus on Semiconductor
Research, edited by Kenneth G. Sachs, Nova Science Publishers Inc. (2007),
ISBN: 1-60021-579-3.
M. Estela Calixto, M. Tufiño-Velázquez, G.
Contreras-Puente, O. Vigil-Galán, M. Jiménez-Escamilla, R. Mendoza-Perez, J.
Sastré-Hernández, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Study of chemical bath
deposited CdS bi-layers and their performance in CdS/CdTe solar cell
applications”, Thin Solid Films 516, 7004–7007 (2008).
O. Koudriavtseva, Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, Yu. Kudriavtsev, S.
Gallardo, R. Asomoza, R. Mendoza-Perez, J. Sastre-Hernandez, G.
Contreras-Puente, “SIMS depth profiling analysis of halogens in
CdTe/CdS/TSO solar cells using Cs2M+ cluster ions”,
Applied Surface Science 255, 1423-1426 (2008).
Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Effective absorption coefficient for
graded band-gap semiconductors and the expected photocurrent density in
solar cells”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 93, 41-44 (2009).
Arturo Morales-Acevedo, "Lateral Current Effects on
the Voltage Distribution in the Emitter of Solar Cells Under
Concentrated Sunlight", Solar Energy 83, 456-461 (2009).
Juan Manuel Peza-Tapia, Arturo
Morales-Acevedo and Mauricio Ortega-López, “Electrical
characterization of Al, Ag and In contacts on CuInS2 thin films
deposited by spray pyrolysis”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 93,
544-548 (2009).
Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Variable band-gap semiconductors as
the basis of new solar cells”, Solar Energy 83, 1466–1471 (2009).
Norberto Hernández-Como and ArturoMorales-Acevedo,
“Simulation of hetero-junction silicon solar cells with AMPS-1D”, Solar
Energy Materials & Solar Cells 94, 62-67 (2010).
Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “A Simple Model of Graded Band-Gap
CuInGaSe2 Solar Cells”, Energy Procedia 2, 169-176 (2010).
Gerardo Francisco Pérez-Sánchez and Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Electrode optimization for bulk acoustic wave
resonators based on ZnO”, Materials Science and Engineering B 174, 50-54
(2010).
B. Vidhya, S. Velumani, Jesús A.
Arenas-Alatorre, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, R. Asomoza, J. A.
Chavez-Carvayar, “Structural studies of mechano-chemically synthesized
CuIn1−xGaxSe2 nanoparticles”,
Materials Science and Engineering B 174, 216-221 (2010).
Norberto
Hernández-Como, Arturo Morales-Acevedo and Y. Matsumoto, “I–V
characteristics of a-Si–c-Si hetero-junction diodes made by hot wire CVD”,
Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 95, 1996-2000 (2011).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Analytical
model for the photocurrent of solar cells based on graded band-gap CdZnTe
thin films”,Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 95, 2837-2841 (2011).
W. Rivera,
C. Gálvez, X. Velasco, A. Morales-Acevedo, “Control de la
fotoluminiscencia de Silicio Poroso por oxidación anódica en solución de C2H5OH/HF”,
Revista Colombiana de Física 41 (2), 369-372 (2011).
J.
Sastré-Hernández, M. E. Calixto, M. Tufiño-Velazquez, G. Contreras-Puente,
A. Morales-Acevedo, G. Casados-Cruz, M.A. Hernández-Pérez, M. L.
Albor-Aguilera and R. Mendoza-Pérez, “Cu(InGa)Se2 thin films
processed by co-evaporation and their application into solar cells”,
Revista Mexicana de Física 57, 441-445 (2011).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, Norberto Hernández-Como
and G. Casados-Cruz, “Modeling Solar Cells: A Method for Improving their
Efficiency”, Materials Science and Engineering B 177, 1430-1435 (2012).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo and Gaspar
Casados-Cruz, “Forecasting the Development of Different Solar Cell
Technologies,” International Journal of Photoenergy, Article ID 202747, 5
pages (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/202747.
F. Chávez, G. F. Pérez-Sánchez, O. Goiz, P. Zaca-Morán, R.
Peña-Sierra, A. Morales-Acevedo, C. Felipe, M. Soledad-Priego
“Sensing performance of palladium-functionalized WO3 nanowires
by a drop-casting method”, Applied Surface Science 275, 28-35 (2013).
Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Oportunidades de Colaboración
Científica con Centro América y el Caribe: Propuesta de una Red Regional
de Investigación y Desarrollo en Energía”, Revista Mexicana de Física S59
(2), 52–55 (2013).
Enrique
J. Tinajero-Pérez, Jesús Ezequiel Molinar-Solis, Rodolfo Z. García-Lozano,
Pedro Rosales-Quintero, Jose M. Rocha-Perez, Alejandro Diaz-Sanchez, and Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Fowler-Nordheim Tunneling Characterization on
Poly1-Poly2 Capacitors for the Implementation of Analog Memories in CMOS
0.5 μm Technology”, Advances in Condensed Matter Physics,
Volume 2014, Article ID 632785, 7 pages, (2014), doi.org/10.1155/2014/632785.
G.F. Pérez-Sánchez, F. Chávez, D. Cortés-Salinas, P. Zaca-Morán, A.
Morales-Acevedo, R. Peña-Sierra, O. Goiz, A.T. Huerta, “Synthesis
of In-In2O3 microstructures by close-spaced vapor
transport (CSVT) and their transformation to In2O3
nanobelts at low temperature”, Vacuum (2014), doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2014.02.012.
Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Forecasting future energy demand: Electrical energy in
Mexico as an example case”, Energy Procedia 782-790 (2014), doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.10.286.
Horacio León-Camacho, Arturo Morales-Acevedo and Bruno
Gandlgruber, “Methodology for evaluating climate change adaptive
capacities when using decentralized renewable energies”, Energy Procedia
791-800 (2014), doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.10.287.
Edgar Roberto Sandoval García and Arturo Morales-Acevedo,
“Optimizing the energy portfolio of the Mexican electricity sector by 2050
considering CO2eq emissions and Life Cycle Assessment”, Energy
Procedia 850-859 (2014), doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.10.294.
Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Design of very thin CdTe Solar Cells with high efficiency”,
Energy Procedia 3051-3057 (2014), doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.001.
M. A. Ruiz-Preciado, A. Kassiba, A. Morales-Acevedo and
M. Makowska-Janusik, “Vibrational and Electronic Peculiarities of NiTiO3
nanostructures inferred from first principle calculations”, Royal Society
of Chemistry Advances (2015), doi.org/10.1039/c4ra16400h.
Roberto Bernal-Correa, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, Álvaro
Pulzara Mora, Jorge Montes Monsalve, Máximo López López, “Design of AlxGa1-xAs/GaAs/InyGa1-yAs
triple junction solar cells with anti-reflective coating”, Materials
Science in Semiconductor Processing (2015), doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2015.01.020.
A. Ruiz-Preciado, A. Kassiba, A. Gibaud, A. Morales-Acevedo,
“Comparison of nickel titanate (NiTiO3) powders synthesized by
sol–gel and solid state reaction”, Materials Science in Semiconductor
Processing (2015), doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2015.02.063.
Arturo Méndez-López, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, Yuliana de
Jesús Acosta-Silva, Hironori Katagiri, Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Orlando
Zelaya-Angel, and Mauricio Ortega-López, “Study of the synthesis of
self-assembled tin disulfide nanoparticles prepared by a low-cost
process”, Phys. Status Solidi C, 1–4 (2015), doi.org/10.1002/pssc.201400271.
N. Hernandez-Como, A. Morales-Acevedo, M. Aleman, I.
Mejia, M.A. Quevedo-Lopez, “Al-doped ZnO thin films deposited by confocal
sputtering as electrodes in ZnO-based thin-film transistors”,
Microelectronic Engineering 150 (25), 26-31 (2016), doi.org/10.1016/j.mee.2015.10.017.
R. Bernal-Correa, A. Morales-Acevedo, J. Montes-Monsalveand A. Pulzara-Mora, “Design of the TCO (ZnO:Al) thickness for glass/TCO/CdS/CIGS/Mo
solar cells”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49 (2016) 125601, doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/49/12/125601.
M. A. Ruiz-Preciado, A. Bulou, M. Makowska-Janusik, A. Gibaud, A.
Morales-Acevedo and A. Kassiba, “Nickel
titanate (NiTiO3) thin films: RF-sputtering synthesis and investigation of
related features for photocatalysis”, CrystEngComm (2016), doi.org/10.1039/c6ce00306k.
A. Méndez-López, A. Morales-Acevedo, Y. J. Acosta-Silva,
and M. Ortega-López, “Synthesis and
Characterization of Colloidal CZTS Nanocrystals by a Hot-Injection
Method”, Journal of Nanomaterials, vol. 2016, Article ID 7486094, 7
pages (2016). doi:10.1155/2016/7486094.
J. I. Montes-Monsalve, A. Morales-Acevedo, R.
Bernal-Correa and A. Pulzara-Mora,
“Characterization of CuInSe2 thin films obtained by
RF-Magnetron co-sputtering from CuSe and In targets”, Chalcogenide
Letters 13 (8), 381-388 (2016), http://www.chalcogen.ro/381_MontesMJI.pdf.
Armando Acevedo-Luna, Roberto Bernal-Correa, Jorge
Montes-Monsalve, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Design of thin film solar cells based on a unified simple
analytical model”, Journal of Applied Research and Technology 15
(2017) 599–608, doi.org/10.1016/j.jart.2017.08.002.
M. A. Ruiz-Preciado, A. A. Flores Caballero, A. Manzo Robledo
and A. Morales-Acevedo,
“Nanostructured NiTiO3 as a Catalytic Material for Methanol
Electrochemical Oxidation in Alkaline Conditions”, Journal of The
Electrochemical Society, 165 (3) H84-H90 (2018), doi.org/10.1149/2.0331803jes.
Armando Acevedo‑Luna, Arturo Morales‑Acevedo, “Study of validity of the single-diode model for solar cells
by I–V curves parameters extraction using a simple numerical method”, Journal
of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 29(18), 15284-15290 (2018),
doi.org/10.1007/s10854-018-8793-x.
Isaac Montes‑Valenzuela, Francisco Perez‑Sanchez, Arturo
Morales‑Acevedo, “Structural,
optical and photoluminescence properties of hybrid metal–organic halide
perovskite thin films prepared by a single step solution method”,Journal of Materials Science: Materials
in Electronics 29(18), 15404-15410 (2018), doi.org/10.1007/s10854-018-9062-8.
Santiago Torres-Jaramillo, Arturo Morales-Acevedo,
Roberto Bernal-Correa, Alvaro Pulzara-Mora, “Optimizing
two and four-terminal CuGaSe2/CuInGaSe2 tandem solar
cells for achieving high efficiencies”, Optik 175, 71-77
(2018), doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2018.08.124.
Carlos
A Hernández-Gutiérrez, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, Dagoberto Cardona,
Gerardo Contreras-Puente, Máximo López-López, “Analysis of the
performance of InxGa1-xN based solar cells”, SN App.
Sci. 1, 628 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-019-0650-x.
K. Gutierrez
Z-B, P. G. Zayas-Bazán, F. de Moure-Flores,
D. Jiménez-Olarte, J. Sastré-Hernández,
C. A. Hernández-Gutiérrez, J. R. Aguilar-Hernández,
C. Mejía-García, A. Morales-Acevedo, G. Contreras-Puente,
“Development of a CdCl2 thermal treatment process for improving
CdS/CdTe ultrathin solar cells”, J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 30 (18),
16932-16938 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-019-01694-2.
Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Ultra-thin perovskite solar cells analytical model involving
radiative and nonradiative carrier recombination mechanisms”, Physica
Status Solidi B 256 (12), 1900340 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1002/pssb.201900340.
José L. Díaz-Bernabé and Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Experimental study of the equivalence of the Adaptive
Incremental Conductance (AIC) and the Adaptive Perturb & Observe (APO)
algorithms for PV systems maximum power tracking”, IEEE Latin America
Transactions 17 (8), 1237-1243 (2019), https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8932331.
J. Sastré-Hernández, R. Mendoza-Pérez, M. L. Albor-Aguilera, D.
Jiménez-Olarte, G. Santana, M. Tufiño-Velázquez, A. Morales-Acevedo,
G. Contreras-Puente, “Systematized and
simplified processing of CuInGaSe2 thin films to be applied to
solar cells”, Chalcogenide Letters 17 (2), 69-76 (2020), http://www.chalcogen.ro/69_SastreHernandezJ.pdf.
Isaac Montes-Valenzuela, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Structural and optical properties of metal-organic halide
perovskite thin films for varying methylammonium chloride and iodide
concentrations in the precursor solution”, Thin Solid Films 707, 138067
(2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2020.138067.
Roberto Bernal-Correa and Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Spectral reflectance optimization
for planar perovskite solar cells”, Optik - International
Journal for Light and Electron Optics 227, 165973 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2020.165973.
Santiago Torres-Jaramillo, Roberto Bernal-Correa and Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Improved design
of InGaP/GaAs//Si tandem solar cells”, EPJ Photovoltaics 12, 1 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1051/epjpv/2021001.
Onyekachi Nwakanma, S. Velumani and Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Review on the effects due to alkali metals on
copper-indium-gallium-selenide solar cells”, Materials Today Energy 20,
100617 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtener.2020.100617.
Enrique Cabello-Vargas, Azucena Escobedo-Izquierdo and Arturo
Morales-Acevedo, “Review on Rural
Energy Access Policies”, International Journal of Energy Economics and
Policy 11 (5), 157-171 (2021), https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.11268.
Mariano Birlaín-Escalante, Jorge Islas-Samperio, Ángel de la
Vega-Navarro and Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Development and Upstream Integration of the Photovoltaic
Industry Value Chain in Mexico”, Energies 16, 2072 (2023), https://doi.org/10.3390/en16042072.
Roberto-Bernal-Correa, Arturo Morales-Acevedo, Jorge
Montes-Monsalve, “Estimating the
Performance of Solar Cells with Luminescent Down-Shifting Layers”,
Phys. Scrip. 98, 065904 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/acce7c.
Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “Fundamentals of Solar
Cells Physics Revisited: Common pitfalls when reporting calculated and
measured photocurrent density, open-circuit voltage, and efficiency of
solar cells”, Solar Energy Journal 262, 111774 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2023.05.051.
D. Mateus Torres-Herrera, Olaf Ramírez-Iturbe, Rosa
Nava-Sánchez and Arturo Morales-Acevedo, “On the Vegard’s law compliance for CsxFA(1-x)PbI3
perovskite thin films”, Phys. Scrip. 99, 095962 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ad6d12.