VARIATIONS in damp heat-induced degradation behavior of sputtered ZnO window layer for CIGS solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7773, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Pern, F J ^a   To, B ^a   Glick, S H ^a   Sundaramoorthy, R ^a   DeHart C , ^a   Glynn, S ^a   Perkins, C ^a   Mansfield, L ^a   Gessert, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Al doped ZnO; Bilayer ZnO; CIGS solar cells; Damp heat test; Intrinsic ZnO; Performance reliability

Indexed keywords

AL-DOPED ZNO; BI-LAYER; CIGS SOLAR CELLS; DAMP HEAT; PERFORMANCE RELIABILITY; ZNO;

ALUMINUM; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RELIABILITY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 77957829695     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.863078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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