• DocumentCode
    2546971
  • Title

    Design considerations for thin film CuInSe2, and other polycrystalline heterojunction solar cells

  • Author

    Schwartz, R.J. ; Gray, J.L. ; Lee, Y.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    7-11 Oct 1991
  • Firstpage
    920
  • Abstract
    The design considerations which allow the fabrication of efficient thin-film solar cells in despite the presence of `dead´ layers is discussed. CIS thin-film cells are used as a particular example but the conclusions apply to a variety of thin-film cells. The effects of the application of these design principles are illustrated using the results of numerical simulations of CdS/CuInSe2 solar cells, since these cells are reasonably mature in both their modeling and fabrication and offer experimental verification of the theory presented
  • Keywords
    II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; copper compounds; indium compounds; semiconductor thin films; solar cells; ternary semiconductors; CdS-CuInSe2 solar cells; numerical simulations; polycrystalline heterojunction solar cells; semiconductor thin films; Computational Intelligence Society; Conducting materials; Electron emission; Heterojunctions; Lattices; Photonic band gap; Photovoltaic cells; Spontaneous emission; Sputtering; Transistors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the Twenty Second IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, NV
  • Print_ISBN
    0-87942-636-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PVSC.1991.169343
  • Filename
    169343
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2546971