Effects of Cd-free buffer layer for CuInSe{sub 2} thin-film solar cells

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OSTI ID:208056

Nii, T; Sugiyama, I; Kase, T; Sato, M; Kaniyama, Y; Kuriyagawa, S; Kushiya, K; Takeshita, H ^[1]

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1. Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., Atsugi, Kanagawa (Japan). Central R and D Lab.

ZnO buffer layer by a chemical-bath deposition (CBD) method is developed in this study to improve the interface quality between n-ZnO window layer and p-CuInSe{sub 2} (CIS) thin-film absorber in CIS thin-film solar cells as one of the approaches to the fabrication of Cd-free thin-film solar cells. The optimization of the fabrication conditions of CBD-ZnO leads to the efficiency of about 10%. These results indicate the CBD-ZnO buffer layer has rather high capability to fabricate high-efficiency CIS thin-film solar cells.

• OSTI ID: 208056
• Report Number(s): CONF-941203-; ISBN 0-7803-1459-X; TRN: IM9616%%384
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1. world conference on photovoltaic energy conversion, Waikoloa, HI (United States), 5-9 Dec 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of 1994 IEEE first world conference on photovoltaic energy conversion: Conference record of the twenty fourth IEEE photovoltaic specialists conference -- 1994. Volume 1; PB: 1303 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
14 SOLAR ENERGY
COPPER SELENIDE SOLAR CELLS
PERFORMANCE
ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS
INDIUM SELENIDE SOLAR CELLS
ZINC OXIDES
CHEMICAL COATING
SOLAR ABSORBERS
INTERFACES
ZINC HYDROXIDES
MORPHOLOGY
PH VALUE
ANNEALING
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS