Abstract
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..deg..C section of the Cu-In-Se system using a defect model; form ..alpha..-CuInSe2 by rapid thermal processing of a stacked binarycompound 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.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 226 |
State | Published - 2006 |
Bibliographical note
Work performed by the University of Florida, Gainesville, FloridaNREL Publication Number
- NREL/SR-520-40568
Keywords
- advanced process development
- chemical bath deposition (CBD)
- CIGS
- copper indium diselenide (CIS)
- deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS)
- epitaxial growth
- materials research
- optical modulation
- photoluminescence spectroscopy
- PV
- simulation
- solar cells
- thermodynamic modeling
- thin films