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Rapid annealing of reactively sputtered precursors for Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells

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PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 10-17

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2265

Keywords

CZTS; Cu2ZnSnS4; kesterite; reactive sputtering; sulfides; thin film solar cells

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  1. Swedish Energy Agency
  2. Carl Trygger Foundation
  3. Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad project KEST-PV [ENE2010-121541-C03-01/02]

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Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) is a promising thin-film absorber material that presents some interesting challenges in fabrication when compared with Cu(In,Ga)Se-2. We introduce a two-step process for fabrication of CZTS films, involving reactive sputtering of a Cu-Zn-Sn-S precursor followed by rapid annealing. X-ray diffraction and Raman measurements of the sputtered precursor suggest that it is in a disordered, metastable CZTS phase, similar to the high-temperature cubic modification reported for CZTS. A few minutes of annealing at 550 degrees C are sufficient to produce crystalline CZTS films with grain sizes in the micrometer range. The first reported device using this approach has an AM1.5 efficiency of 4.6%, with J(sc) and V-oc both appearing to be limited by interface recombination. Copyright (c) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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