Relationship of Open-Circuit Voltage to CdTe Hole Concentration and Lifetime

Joel Duenow; David Albin; Matthew Reese; Steven Johnston; Darius Kuciauskas; Wyatt Metzger; Santosh Swain; Tursun Ablekim; Kelvin Lynn; Alan Fahrenbruch; James Burst

doi:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2016.2598260

Relationship of Open-Circuit Voltage to CdTe Hole Concentration and Lifetime

Joel Duenow
, David Albin
, Matthew Reese
, Steven Johnston
, Darius Kuciauskas
, Wyatt Metzger
, Santosh Swain
, Tursun Ablekim
, Kelvin Lynn
, Alan Fahrenbruch
, James Burst

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Abstract

We investigate the correlation of bulk CdTe and CdZnTe material properties with experimental open-circuit voltage ( V_oc) through fabrication and characterization of diverse single-crystal solar cells with different dopants. Several distinct crystal types reach V_oc > 900 mV. Correlations are in general agreement with V_oc limits modeled from bulk minority-carrier lifetime and hole concentration.

Original language	American English
Article number	7568988
Pages (from-to)	1641-1644
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
Volume	6
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2016.2598260 https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2016.2598260
State	Published - Nov 2016

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Cadmium compounds
II-VI semiconductor materials
photovoltaic cells

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Duenow, J., Albin, D., Reese, M., Johnston, S., Kuciauskas, D., Metzger, W., Swain, S., Ablekim, T., Lynn, K., Fahrenbruch, A., & Burst, J. (2016). Relationship of Open-Circuit Voltage to CdTe Hole Concentration and Lifetime. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 6(6), 1641-1644. Article 7568988. https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2016.2598260, https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2016.2598260

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