Investigation of alternative dopants in MOCVD-grown SnO 2:F and their effects on CdTe device performance

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 002696-002700

  Barnes, Teresa M ^a   Burst, James ^a   Wyse, Carrie ^b   Scott, Marty ^a   Torres, Rob ^b   Gessert, Tim ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Matheson Tri Gas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDTE DEVICES; CDTE SOLAR CELLS; DOPANT SOURCES; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; FLUORINE SOURCE; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; HEAVY DOPING; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-MOBILITY FILMS; KYOTO PROTOCOL; LOW COSTS; TETRAMETHYLTIN; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE;

CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CHEMICAL RESISTANCE; CHLORINE; EMISSION CONTROL; ETHERS; FLUORINE; GLOBAL WARMING; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; NANOCOMPOSITES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SHEET RESISTANCE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

EID: 84861016256     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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