Surface Passivation for CdTe Devices

Matthew Reese; Craig Perkins; Teresa Barnes; Wyatt Metzger; Timothy Gessert; James Burst

Surface Passivation for CdTe Devices

Matthew Reese (Inventor), Craig Perkins (Inventor), Teresa Barnes (Inventor), Wyatt Metzger (Inventor), Timothy Gessert (Inventor), James Burst (Inventor)

Materials Science

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Abstract

In one embodiment, a method for surface passivation for CdTe devices is provided. The method includes adjusting a stoichiometry of a surface of a CdTe material layer such that the surface becomes at least one of stoichiometric or Cd-rich; and reconstructing a crystalline lattice at the surface of the CdTe material layer by annealing the adjusted surface.

Original language	American English
Patent number	9,722,111
Filing date	1/08/17
State	Published - 2017

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NREL/PT-5K00-69106

Keywords

CdTe devices
surface passivation

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