Characterization of chemical bath deposited buffer layers for thin film solar cell applications

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 207, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2272-2278

  Dwyer, D ^a   Sun, R ^b   Efstathiadis, H ^a   Haldar, P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Angstrom Sun Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption spectra; Compound semiconductors; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

BUFFER LAYER APPLICATIONS; BUFFER MATERIALS; CDS; CHEMICAL BATH; CHEMICAL-BATH DEPOSITION; COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTORS; GRAZING-INCIDENCE X-RAY DIFFRACTION; LOW OXYGEN; SEM; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORPTION; BUFFER LAYERS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; COPPER; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DEPOSITION; EPITAXIAL LAYERS; INDIUM SULFIDE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OXYGEN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; TRANSPARENCY; VAPOR DEPOSITION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC SULFIDE;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77957926592     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201025522     Document Type: Article

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