Nanostructured ZnS:In2S3 buffer layers on Cu(In,Ga) (S,Se)2: Can voltage and efficiency be improved through interface inhomogeneities on a scale below the minority carrier diffusion length?

Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 1012, Issue , 2007, Pages 43-49

  Allsop, Nicholas A ^a   Camus, Christian ^a   Gledhill, Sophie ^a   Unold, Thomas ^a   Lux Steiner, Martha ^a   Niesen, Thomas ^b   Fischer, Christian Herbert ^a  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b AVANCIS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER LAYERS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHASE INTERFACES; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC SULFIDE; CADMIUM SULFIDE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

BUFFERED CELLS; CHALCOPYRITE ABSORBERS; COMPOSITE BUFFERS; MINORITY CARRIERS; NANOSTRUCTURED INTERFACES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ZINC SULFIDE;

CU(IN ,GA)(S ,SE)2; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTERFACE RECOMBINATION; LUMINESCENCE INTENSITY; MINORITY CARRIER DIFFUSION LENGTH; NANO-STRUCTURED; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE PASSIVATION;

EID: 38549121253     PISSN: 02729172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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