Fundamental Materials Research and Advanced Process Development for Thin-Film CIS-Based Photovoltaics: Final Technical Report, 2 October 2001 - 30 September 2005

Technical Report · Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/891600· OSTI ID:891600

Anderson, T J; Li, S S; Crisalle, O D; Craciun, V

The objectives for this thin-film copper-indium-diselenide (CIS) solar cell project cover the following areas: Develop and characterize buffer layers for CIS-based solar cell; grow and characterize chemical-bath deposition of Znx Cd1-xS buffer layers grown on CIGS absorbers; study effects of buffer-layer processing on CIGS thin films characterized by the dual-beam optical modulation technique; grow epitaxial CuInSe2 at high temperature; study the defect structure of CGS by photoluminescence spectroscopy; investigate deep-level defects in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells by deep-level transient spectroscopy; conduct thermodynamic modeling of the isothermal 500 C section of the Cu-In-Se system using a defect model; form alpha-CuInSe2 by rapid thermal processing of a stacked binary compound bilayer; investigate pulsed non-melt laser annealing on the film properties and performance of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells; and conduct device modeling and simulation of CIGS solar cells.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-99-GO10337
• OSTI ID: 891600
• Report Number(s): NREL/SR-520-40568; ADJ-2-30630-13; TRN: US200622%%117
• Resource Relation: Related Information: Work performed by the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
ANNEALING
BUFFERS
DEFECTS
DEPOSITION
LASERS
MODULATION
PHOTOLUMINESCENCE
PROCESSING
SIMULATION
SOLAR CELLS
SPECTROSCOPY
THERMODYNAMICS
THIN FILMS
TRANSIENTS
PV
MATERIALS RESEARCH
THIN FILM
ADVANCED PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
SOLAR CELL
COPPER INDIUM DISELENIDE
CHEMICAL-BATH-DEPOSITION
EPITAXIAL GROWTH
OPTICAL MODULATION
PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY
DEEP-LEVEL TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY
THERMODYNAMIC MODELING
CIGS
Solar Energy - Photovoltaics