Copper Antimony Chalcogenide Thin Film PV Device Development

Adam W. Welch; Lauryn L. Baranowski; Francisco Willian De Souza Lucas; Eric S. Toberer; Colin A. Wolden; Andriy Zakutayev

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356357

Copper Antimony Chalcogenide Thin Film PV Device Development

Adam W. Welch, Lauryn L. Baranowski, Francisco Willian De Souza Lucas, Eric S. Toberer, Colin A. Wolden, Andriy Zakutayev

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Abstract

Emerging ternary chalcogenide thin film solar cell technologies, such as CuSbS2 and CuSbSe2, have recently attracted attention as simpler alternatives to quaternary Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS). Despite suitable photovoltaic properties, the initial energy conversion efficiency of CuSbS2 is rather low (0.3%). Here, we report on our progress towards improving the efficiency of CuSbS2 solar cells using a high throughput approach. The combinatorial methodology quickly results in baseline solar cell prototypes with 0.6% efficiency, and then modification of the back contact architecture leads to 1% PV devices.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356357 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356357
State	Published - 2015
Event	42nd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015 - New Orleans, United States Duration: 14 Jun 2015 → 19 Jun 2015

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Conference	42nd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Orleans
Period	14/06/15 → 19/06/15

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NREL/CP-5K00-64154

Keywords

combinatorial sputtering
solar cell absorber
ternary copper metal chalcogenide

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