Oxygen incorporation during fabrication of substrate CdTe photovoltaic devices

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3225-3229

  Duenow, Joel N ^a   Dhere, Ramesh G ^a   Kuciauskas, Darius ^a   Li, Jian V ^a   Pankow, Joel W ^a   Dippo, Patricia C ^a   Dehart, Clay M ^a   Gessert, Timothy A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

cadmium compounds; current voltage characteristics; heterojunctions; II VI semiconductor materials; photovoltaic cells; solar energy; thin film devices

Indexed keywords

CDS; CDTE; CDTE DEVICES; DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS; FILL FACTOR; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; OXYGEN INCORPORATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POSTDEPOSITION HEAT TREATMENT; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; PROCESSING STEPS; ROLL-TO-ROLL PROCESSING; SUPERSTRATES;

CADMIUM; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; EFFICIENCY; HEAT TREATMENT; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OXYGEN; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMER FILMS; SOLAR ENERGY; THIN FILM DEVICES;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84869396001     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6318264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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