Journal
SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS
Volume 140, Issue -, Pages 33-37Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2015.03.029
Keywords
CIGS solar cells; Ultrafast photophysics; Pump-probe reflectance spectroscopy; Carrier recombination; Dielectric function model
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Although Cu(In,Ga)Se-2 (CIGS) solar cells have the highest efficiency of any thin-film solar cell, especially when sodium is incorporated, the fundamental device properties of ultrafast carrier transport and recombination in such cells remain not fully understood. Here, we explore the dynamics of charge carriers in CIGS absorber layers with varying concentrations of Na by femtosecond (fs) broadband pump-probe reflectance spectroscopy with 120 fs time resolution. By analyzing the time-resolved transient spectra in a different time domain, we show that a small amount of Na integrated by NaF deposition on top of sputtered Cu(In,Ga) prior to selenization forms CIGS, which induces slower recombination of the excited carriers. Here, we provide direct evidence for the elongation of carrier lifetimes by incorporating Na into CIGS. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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