Designing CIGS solar cells with front-side point contacts

2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sozzi, G ^a   Pignoloni, D ^a   Menozzi, R ^a   Pianezzi, F ^b   Reinhard, P ^b   Bissig, B ^b   Buecheler, S ^b   Tiwari, A N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CIGS passivation layer; point contact; thin film photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; PASSIVATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLAR CELLS;

2-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; CELL PERFORMANCE; CIGS SOLAR CELLS; DOPING DENSITIES; PASSIVATION LAYER; THIN FILM PHOTOVOLTAICS;

POINT CONTACTS;

EID: 84961659604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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