Impact of Na Dynamics at the Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4/CdS Interface during Post Low Temperature Treatment of Absorbers

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 5017-5024

  Xie, Haibing ^a   López Marino, Simon ^a   Olar, Tetiana ^b   Sánchez, Yudania ^a   Neuschitzer, Markus ^a   Oliva, Florian ^a   Giraldo, Sergio ^a   Izquierdo Roca, Victor ^a   Lauermann, Iver ^b   Pérez Rodríguez, Alejandro ^a,c   Saucedo, Edgardo ^a  

^a CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4; kesterite; post low temperature treatment (PLTT); sodium; solar cell; thin film

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; EFFICIENCY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SODIUM; SOLAR ABSORBERS; TEMPERATURE; THIN FILMS;

DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; HIGH EFFICIENCY DEVICES; INTERFACE REGIONS; KESTERITES; LOW TEMPERATURE TREATMENT; POST THERMAL TREATMENT; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84962540446     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b12243     Document Type: Article

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