Fabrication of vacuum-evaporated SnS/CdS heterojunction for PV applications

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1099-1104

  Ghosh, B ^a   Das, M ^a   Banerjee, P ^a   Das, S ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

CdS; Heterojunction solar cell; SnS; Thin film

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; VACUUM;

HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL; WINDOW LAYER TREATMENT;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 45049085724     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2008.03.016     Document Type: Article

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