Improving the damp-heat stability of copper indium gallium diselenide solar cells with a semicrystalline tin dioxide overlayer

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 101, Issue , 2012, Pages 270-276

  Selin Tosun, B ^a   Feist, Rebekah K ^b   Gunawan, Aloysius ^a   Andre Mkhoyan, K ^a   Campbell, Stephen A ^a   Aydil, Eray S ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

CIGS; Damp heat stability; Tin dioxide

Indexed keywords

CIGS; CIGS SOLAR CELLS; COPPER INDIUM GALLIUM DISELENIDE; CRYSTALLINE FILMS; DAMP HEAT STABILITY; DEVICE LIFETIME; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; INITIAL EFFICIENCY; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE DECAYS; OVERLAYERS; P-N JUNCTION; PEAK EFFICIENCY; RADIO FREQUENCY MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICRYSTALLINES; TEST CONDITION; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; TIN DIOXIDE FILM; WATER DIFFUSION; WATER PERMEATION;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; COPPER; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INDIUM; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TIN DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

TIN;

EID: 84859542390     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.02.017     Document Type: Article

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