Fabrication of ionic liquid electrodeposited Cu--Sn--Zn--S--Se thin films and method of making

Bhattacharya, Raghu Nath

Title: Fabrication of ionic liquid electrodeposited Cu--Sn--Zn--S--Se thin films and method of making

Patent · Tue Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2016

OSTI ID:1236248

Bhattacharya, Raghu Nath

A semiconductor thin-film and method for producing a semiconductor thin-films comprising a metallic salt, an ionic compound in a non-aqueous solution mixed with a solvent and processing the stacked layer in chalcogen that results in a CZTS/CZTSS thin films that may be deposited on a substrate is disclosed.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

Assignee:: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC

Patent Number(s):: 9,236,511

Application Number:: 9,236,511

OSTI ID:: 1236248

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2014 Jul 03

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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