Role of the CdS buffer layer as an active optical element in Cu(In, Ga)Se2 thin-film solar cells

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 457-463

  Orgassa, Kay ^a   Rau, Uwe ^a   Nguyen, Quang ^a   Schock, Hans Werner ^a   Werner, Jürgen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL DEVICES; THIN FILMS;

ACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT; BUFFER LAYER;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0036844174     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.438     Document Type: Article

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