Growth of polycrystalline Cu (In,Ga) Se2 thin films using a radio frequency-cracked Se-radical beam source and application for photovoltaic devices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Ishizuka, Shogo ^a   Shibata, Hajime ^a   Yamada, Akimasa ^a   Fons, Paul ^a   Sakurai, Keiichiro ^a   Matsubara, Koji ^a   Niki, Shigeru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FILM GROWTH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

DEFECT CONTROL; FILM PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 34547483394     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2766669     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. J. E. Jaffe and A. Zunger, Phys. Rev. B 29, 1882 (1984).
2. P. D. Paulson, R. W. Birkmire, and W. N. Shafarman, J. Appl. Phys. 94, 879 (2003).
3. R. R. Gay, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 47, 19 (1997).
4. M. A. Contreras, K. Ramanathan, J. AbuShama, F. Hasoon, D. L. Young, B. Egaas, and R. Noufi, Prog. Photovoltaics 13, 209 (2005).
5. A. N. Nesmeyanov, Vapor Pressure of the Chemical Elements, edited by, R. Gary, (Elsevier, Amsterdam/London/NewYork, 1963), p. 327.
6. D. A. Cammack, K. Shahzad, and T. Marshall, Appl. Phys. Lett. 56, 845 (1990).
7. G. Herzberg, The Spectra and Structures of Simple Free Radicals: An Introduction to Molecular Spectroscopy (Cornell University Press, New York, 1971), p. 2.
8. T. Hariu, S. Yamauchi, S. F. Fang, T. Ohshima, and T. Hamada, J. Cryst. Growth 136, 157 (1994).
9. S. Ishizuka, K. Sakurai, A. Yamada, K. Matsubara, P. Fons, K. Iwata, S. Nakamura, Y. Kimura, T. Baba, H. Nakanishi, T. Kojima, and S. Niki, Proceedings of the 19th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Paris (WIP, Munich, 2004), p. 1729.
10. http://www.oaresearch.co.uk/QC200%20500.htm.
11. L. C. Calhoun and R. M. Park, J. Appl. Phys. 85, 490 (1999).
12. M. A. Contreras, J. Tuttle, A. Gabor, A. Tennant, K. Ramanathan, S. Asher, A. Franz, J. Keane, L. Wang, and R. Noufi, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 41/42, 231 (1996).
13. S. Ishizuka, K. Sakurai, A. Yamada, K. Matsubara, H. Shibata, M. Yonemura, S. Nakamura, H. Nakanishi, T. Kojima, and S. Niki, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Fourth World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, Hawaii (IEEE, New York, 2006), p. 338.
14. S.-H. Wei, S. B. Zhang, and A. Zunger, Appl. Phys. Lett. 72, 3199 (1998).
15. S. B. Zhang, S.-H. Wei, and A. Zunger, Phys. Rev. B 57, 9642 (1998).
16. J. I. Pankove and J. A. Hutchby, J. Appl. Phys. 47, 5387 (1976).
17. M. E. Lin, B. N. Sverdlov, and H. Morko̧, J. Appl. Phys. 74, 5038 (1993).
18. R. Scheer, I. Luck, M. Kanis, M. Matsui, T. Watanabe, and T. Yamamoto, Thin Solid Films 392, 1 (2001).
19. R. J. Molnar and T. D. Moustakas, J. Appl. Phys. 76, 4587 (1994).
20. M. N. Ruberto and A. Rothwarf, J. Appl. Phys. 61, 4662 (1987).