Interface Characterization of Single-Crystal CdTe Solar Cells with VOC > 950 mV

James Burst; Joel Duenow; Helio Moutinho; Chun Sheng Jiang; Mowafak Al-Jassim; Matthew Reese; David Albin; Eric Colegrove; Darius Kuciauskas; Teresa Barnes; Wyatt Metzger; Tursun Ablekim; Santosh Swain; Kelvin Lynn; Ana Kanevce; Jeffery Aguiar

doi:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2016.2598274

Interface Characterization of Single-Crystal CdTe Solar Cells with VOC > 950 mV

James Burst, Joel Duenow, Helio Moutinho, Chun Sheng Jiang, Mowafak Al-Jassim, Matthew Reese, David Albin, Eric Colegrove, Darius Kuciauskas, Teresa Barnes, Wyatt Metzger, Tursun Ablekim, Santosh Swain, Kelvin Lynn, Ana Kanevce, Jeffery Aguiar

Washington State University

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Abstract

Advancing CdTe solar cell efficiency requires improving the open-circuit voltage (V_OC) above 900 mV. This requires long carrier lifetime, high hole density, and high-quality interfaces, where the interface recombination velocity is less than about 10⁴ cm/s. Using CdTe single crystals as a model system, we report on CdTe/CdS electrical and structural interface properties in devices that produce open-circuit voltage exceeding 950 mV.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	1650-1653
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
Volume	6
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2016.2598274 https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2016.2598274
State	Published - Nov 2016

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NREL/JA-5K00-65799

Keywords

Characterization of defects in photovoltaic (PV)
CIGS and CdTe thin-film solar cells
microstructure

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Burst, J., Duenow, J., Moutinho, H., Jiang, C. S., Al-Jassim, M., Reese, M., Albin, D., Colegrove, E., Kuciauskas, D., Barnes, T., Metzger, W., Ablekim, T., Swain, S., Lynn, K., Kanevce, A., & Aguiar, J. (2016). Interface Characterization of Single-Crystal CdTe Solar Cells with VOC > 950 mV. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 6(6), 1650-1653. https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2016.2598274, https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2016.2598274

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Interface Characterization of Single-Crystal CdTe Solar Cells with VOC > 950 mV

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