Understanding defect-related issues limiting efficiency of CIGS solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1290-1295

  Igalson, Małgorzata ^a   Zabierowski, Paweł ^a   Przado, Daniel ^a   Urbaniak, Aleksander ^a   Edoff, Marika ^b   Shafarman, William N ^c  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitance; CIGS; Defects; Device modelling

Indexed keywords

CIGS; CIGS SOLAR CELLS; CU(IN , GA)SE; DEFECT MODEL; DEVICE MODELLING; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; NEGATIVE-U; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHOTOCARRIER; PHOTOVOLTAIC PARAMETERS; RECOMBINATION MECHANISMS;

CAPACITANCE; DEFECTS; GALLIUM; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 67349160738     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2009.01.022     Document Type: Article

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