Prospects of novel front and back contacts for high efficiency cadmium telluride thin film solar cells from numerical analysis

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1496-1500

  Matin, M A ^a,c   Mannir Aliyu, M ^a   Quadery, Abrar H ^a   Amin, Nowshad ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c CHITTAGONG UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Back contact layers; Buffer layers; CdTe; Numerical Analysis; Thin film solar cells

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY TELLURIDE; BACK CONTACT; BACK CONTACT LAYERS; CADMIUM STANNATE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE THIN FILMS; CDS; CDS/CDTE; CDTE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTACT MATERIAL; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; LOW COSTS; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; ZINC STANNATE; ZINC TELLURIDES; ZNO;

ANTIMONY; BUFFER LAYERS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; CADMIUM SULFIDE SOLAR CELLS; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; EPITAXIAL LAYERS; MOLYBDENUM; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; VAPOR DEPOSITION; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

CELLS;

EID: 77955422418     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.02.042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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