Improved Transparent Conducting Oxides Boost Performance of Thin-Film Solar Cells (Fact Sheet)

Heidi Rex

    Research output: NRELFact Sheet

    Abstract

    Today?s thin-film solar cells could not function without transparent conducting oxides (TCOs). TCOs act as a window, both protecting the cell and allowing light to pass through to the cell?s active layers. Until recently, TCOs were seen as a necessary, but static, layer of a thin-film photovoltaic (PV) cell. But a group of researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) hasidentified a pathway to producing improved TCO films that demonstrate higher infrared transparency. To do so, they have modified the TCOs in ways that did not seem possible a few years ago.
    Original languageAmerican English
    StatePublished - 2011

    NREL Publication Number

    • NREL/FS-5200-50853

    Keywords

    • PV
    • TCO
    • transparent conducting oxides (TCO)

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