Analysis of temperature-dependent current-voltage characteristics for CIGSSe and CZTSSe thin film solar cells from nanocrystal inks

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3062-3065

  Carter, Nathaniel J ^a   Hages, Charles J ^a   Moore, James E ^b   McLeod, Steven M ^a   Miskin, Caleb K ^a   Joglekar, Chinmay ^a   Lundstrom, Mark S ^b   Agrawal, Rakesh ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

CIGSSe; Current voltage characteristics; CZTSSe; Inorganic compounds; Nanocrystal inks; Thin film solar cells

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF ENERGY; CIGSSE; CZTSSE; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC ABSORBERS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84896442199     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2013.6745107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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