Quantitative assessment of optical gain and loss in submicron-textured CuIn1-xGaxSe2 solar cells fabricated by three-stage coevaporation

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Hara, Takuya ^a   Maekawa, Takuji ^b   Minoura, Shota ^a   Sago, Yuichiro ^a   Niki, Shigeru ^c   Fujiwara, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ROHM CO LTD   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CADMIUM SULFIDE; COPPER ALLOYS; EFFICIENCY; FABRICATION; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GRADING; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INDIUM ALLOYS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS; TEXTURES; ZINC OXIDE;

BACK SURFACE FIELDS; CARRIER COLLECTION EFFICIENCIES; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; SIMPLE CALCULATION METHOD; THREE-STAGE PROCESS; TOTAL LIGHT ABSORPTION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84946584551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.034012     Document Type: Article

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