Deposition and Characterization of TCO Films for the Application in GaAs Solar Cells

Author

Yun, J.H. ; Lim, J.H. ; Park, S.J. ; Jang, J.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun., Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol.

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

38838

Firstpage

823

Lastpage

825

Abstract

Electrical and optical properties of a double layer anode contact structure comprising metal grid and TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide) film was investigated. In this double layer anode contact structure, TCO film acts as a bottom layer of the double layer AR-coating to reduce light reflection as well as an ohmic contact layer on p-GaAs to reduce parasitic series resistance. Temperature dependent studies on electrical and optical characteristics of AZO film were carried out. And the influence of this double layer anode contacts on solar cell device performance is also presented

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; III-V semiconductors; MOCVD; anodes; antireflection coatings; gallium arsenide; ohmic contacts; semiconductor growth; semiconductor thin films; solar cells; wide band gap semiconductors; zinc compounds; GaAs; ZnO-Al₂O₃; bottom layer; double layer anode contact structure; double layer antireflection-coating; electrical properties; light reflection; metal grid; ohmic contact layer; optical properties; parasitic series resistance; semiconductor solar cells; transparent conducting oxide film characterization; transparent conducting oxide film deposition; Anodes; Conductive films; Contact resistance; Electric resistance; Gallium arsenide; Ohmic contacts; Optical films; Optical reflection; Photovoltaic cells; Temperature dependence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0017-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0017-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279583

Filename

4059756