A comparison between thin film solar cells made from co-evaporated CuIn1-xGaxSe2 using a one-stage process versus a three-stage process

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 470-478

  Salomé, Pedro M P ^a,d   Fjällström, Viktor ^a   Szaniawski, Piotr ^a   Leitão, Joaquim P ^b   Hultqvist, Adam ^a   Fernandes, Paulo A ^b,c   Teixeira, Jennifer P ^b   Falcão, Bruno P ^b   Zimmermann, Uwe ^a   Da Cunha, Antõnio F ^b   Edoff, Marika ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

^d INTERNATIONAL IBERIAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Portugal)

Author keywords

3 stage (three stage); co evaporation; Cu(In Ga)Se2 (CIGS); in line; multistage; one stage; photovoltaics; thin film solar cells

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COPPER ALLOYS; COPPER METALLOGRAPHY; FILM PREPARATION; GALLIUM; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GLOW DISCHARGES; INDIUM ALLOYS; INDIUM METALLOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THIN FILMS;

3-STAGE (THREE-STAGE); CAPACITANCE VOLTAGE; CO-EVAPORATIONS; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; GLOW-DISCHARGE OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MULTISTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAICS;

THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84924435509     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2453     Document Type: Article

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