A recombination analysis of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells with low and high Ga compositions

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 124, Issue , 2014, Pages 143-149

  Li, Jian V ^a   Grover, Sachit ^a   Contreras, Miguel A ^a   Ramanathan, Kannan ^a   Kuciauskas, Darius ^a   Noufi, Rommel ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandgap; CIGS; Interface; Open circuit voltage; Recombination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894596030     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.01.047     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. H.-W. Schock, and R. Noufi CIGS-based solar cells for the next millennium Prog. Photovolt.: Res. Appl. 8 2000 151 160
2. 2 thin films for high-efficiency solar cells Nat. Mater. 12 2013 1107 1111
3. 2 thin-film solar cells beyond 20% Prog. Photovolt.: Res. Appl. 19 2011 894 897
4. 2 solar cells with improved energy conversion efficiency Prog. Photovolt.: Res. Appl. 20 2012 843 850
5. 2 alloy system J. Appl. Phys. 91 2002 1391 1399
6. S. Siebentritt, and U. Rau Wide-Gap Chalcopyrites 2005 Springer Berlin, Germany
7. J.R. Sites, Separation of voltage loss mechanisms in polycrystalline solar cells, in: Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, Las Vegas, USA, 1988, pp. 1604-1607.
8. 2 photovoltaic devices Appl. Phys. Lett. 80 2002 4540 4542
9. 2 layers J. Appl. Phys. 89 2001 8327 8330
10. S. Siebentritt Alternative buffers for chalcopyrite solar cells Sol. Energy 77 2004 767 775
11. 2 heterojunction solar cells - recent achievements, current understanding, and future challenges Appl. Phys. A Mater. Sci. Process. 69 1999 131 147
12. S.S. Hegedus, and W.N. Sharfarman Thin-film solar cells: device measurements and analysis Prog. Photovolt.: Res. Appl. 12 2004 155 176
13. R. Herberholz, V. Nadenau, R. Ruhle, C. Koble, H.W. Schock, and B. Dimmler Prospects of wide-gap chalcopyrites for thin-film photovoltaic modules Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 49 1997 227 237
14. 2:Ga/CdS/ZnO solar cells Thin Solid Films 361-362 2000 458 462
15. 2 interfaces: effect of chalcopyrite alloy composition J. Phys. Chem. Solids 64 2003 1591 1595
16. S. Grover, J.V. Li, D.L. Young, P. Stradins, and H.M. Branz Reformulation of solar cell physics to facilitate experimental separation of recombination pathways Appl. Phys. Lett. 103 2013 (093502-1-093502-5)
17. D. Kuciauskas, J.N. Duenow, A. Kanevce, J.V. Li, M.R. Young, D.H. Levi, Optical-fiber-based time resolved photoluminescence spectrometer for thin film absorber characterization and analysis of TRPL data for CdS/CdTe interface, in: Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, Austin, USA, 2012, pp. 1721-1726.
18. W. Shockley, and W.T. Read Jr. Statistics of the recombination of holes and electrons Phys. Rev. 87 1952 835 842
19. T. Walter, R. Herberholz, and H.W. Schock Distribution of defects in polycrystalline chalcopyrite thin films Solid State Phenom. 51-52 1996 309 316
20. M. Gloekler, A.L. Fahrenbruch, J.R. Sites, Numerical modeling of CIGS and CdTe solar cells: setting the baseline, in: Proceedings of the Third World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, Osaka, Japan, 2003, pp. 491-494.
21. 2 solar cells Appl. Phys. Lett. 93 2008 (022110-1-022110-3)
22. 2 polycrystalline thin-film photovoltaic solar cell absorbers J. Appl. Phys. 114 2013 (154505-1-154505-6)
23. 2 band gap on the valence band offset with CdS Thin Solid Films 451-452 2004 420 423
24. 2 based solar cells Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 55 1998 15 22