Physical and optical properties of In2S3 thin films deposited by thermal evaporation technique for CIGS solar cells

2011 IEEE 1st Conference on Clean Energy and Technology, CET 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 63-67

  Amin, Nowshad ^a,b   Hossain, Mohammad Istiaque ^a   Hamzah, Nur Radhwa ^a   Chelvanathan, Puvaneswaran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

buffer layer; CIGS solar cells; Indium Sulphide; Thermal evaporation

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER LAYERS; AFM IMAGE; BAND GAPS; BUFFER MATERIALS; CIGS SOLAR CELLS; COMPOSITION RATIO; GLASS SUBSTRATES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; IN/S RATIO; NON-STOICHIOMETRIC COMPOSITION; NON-STOICHIOMETRY; PHOTON LOSS; STOICHIOMETRIC COMPOSITIONS; THERMAL EVAPORATION TECHNIQUE; UV MEASUREMENTS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION DATA;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BUFFER LAYERS; DIFFRACTION; ENERGY GAP; GLASS; INDIUM; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STOICHIOMETRY; SUBSTRATES; SULFUR; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES; THIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

THERMAL EVAPORATION;

EID: 80055048582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CET.2011.6041437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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