Damp heat treatment of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells with different sodium content

Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5478-5489

  Daume, Felix ^a,b   Puttnins, Stefan ^a   Scheit, Christian ^a   Zachmann, Hendrik ^a   Rahm, Andreas ^a   Braun, Alexander ^a   Grundmann, Marius ^b  

^a Solarion AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CIGSe; Damp heat; Degradation; Long term stability; Sodium

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE-VOLTAGE PROFILING; CIGSE; DAMP HEAT; DEGRADATION PROCESS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE IMAGING; LONG TERM STABILITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; STANDARDIZED PROCEDURE;

DEGRADATION; GALLIUM; SODIUM;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84890282792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma6125478     Document Type: Article

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