Interfacial alloying and defect formation inside operational cigs solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 002061-002064

  Hetzer, M J ^a   Brillson, L J ^a,b   Jensen, D G ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

^c Ascent Solar Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND EDGE; BAND GAP ENERGY; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; CDS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CIGS SOLAR CELLS; COPPER INDIUM GALLIUM DISELENIDE; DEFECT FORMATION; DEGRADED PERFORMANCE; DEPTH-RESOLVED; INTERFACIAL ALLOYING; NANO SCALE; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; ZNO LAYERS;

ALLOYING; BAND STRUCTURE; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; GALLIUM; INDIUM; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; WELDS; ZINC OXIDE;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 77951617225     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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