• DocumentCode
    2786186
  • Title

    Critical issues for high-efficiency low-cost CIGS solar cells and modules

  • Author

    Niki, S. ; Ishizuka, S. ; Komaki, H. ; Kamikawa-Shimizu, Y. ; Furue, S. ; Choi, S.W. ; Matsubara, K. ; Shibata, H. ; Yamada, A. ; Nakanishi, H. ; Terada, N. ; Sakurai, T. ; Akimoto, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Center for Photovoltaics, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    20-25 June 2010
  • Abstract
    High-efficiency CIGS solar cells and submodules have been developed at AIST. By developing the water-vapor assisted deposition technique, widegap CIGS solar cells with conversion efficiencies of over 18% with Voc=0.744V have been demonstrated. The conversion efficiencies of integrated submodules on 10×10cm2 sodalime glass substrates have been improved up to η=16.2% by using coevaporation process. These results indicate that the CIGS technologies are competitive with the current Si and CdTe technologies in terms of both cost and performance.
  • Keywords
    solar cells; coevaporation process; sodalime glass substrate; solar cell; voltage 0.744 V; water vapor assisted deposition technique; Gallium;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2010 35th IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Honolulu, HI
  • ISSN
    0160-8371
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5890-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PVSC.2010.5617164
  • Filename
    5617164
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2786186