Development of pulsed laser deposition for CdS/CdTe thin film solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Li, Bing ^a,b   Liu, Jianwei ^a   Xu, Guowei ^a   Lu, Rongtao ^a   Feng, Lianghuan ^b   Wu, Judy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDS; CDS/CDTE THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; CDTE LAYERS; CHAMBER PRESSURE; IN-SITU FABRICATION; LASER ENERGY DENSITY; PLD PROCESS; PROCESSING CONDITION; SOLAR POWER CONVERSION; SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; THIN FILMS;

PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

EID: 84867528016     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4759116     Document Type: Article

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