High-efficiency cadmium-free Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin-film solar cells with chemically deposited ZnS buffer layers

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2093-2097

  Nakada, Tokio ^a,b   Furumi, Keisuke ^a   Kunioka, Akio ^a  

^a AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER COMPOUNDS; FABRICATION; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; THIN FILMS; ZINC SULFIDE;

BUFFER LAYER; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL BATH DEPOSITION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0033344293     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.792002     Document Type: Article

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