Prospects of indium sulphide as an alternative to cadmium sulphide buffer layer in cis based solar cells from numerical analysis

Chalcogenide Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 315-324

  Hossain, Mohammad Istiaque ^a   Chelvanathan, Puvaneswaran ^a   Zaman, Mukter ^b   Karim, M R ^a   Alghoul, M A ^a   Amin, Nowshad ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Buffer layer; CIGS solar cells; Indium sulphide; SCAPS

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957841103     PISSN: 15848663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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