Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 11, Issue 14, Pages 13319-13325Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b01756
Keywords
kesterite; CZTSe; solar cell; surface treatment; minority carrier lifetime
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- New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) Feasibility Study Program
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The photovoltaic performance of Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) solar cells subjected to surface oxygen plasma treatments is investigated. The observed improvements are related to an enhancement of the open circuit voltage V-OC, that is, the suppression of the V-OC deficit. The V-OC monotonically increases with treatment time up to 0.460 V. The origin of this improvement is discussed, and it is concluded that the effectiveness of the surface treatment is not due to oxygen-related alloying but instead to the homogeneous oxidation and removal of the oxidized CZTSe surface layer. The surface oxygen content increases with surface treatment time, although surface oxides are fully removed after ammonia treatment, which is conducted in a similar manner to CdS buffer deposition. The reduction of surface recombination is confirmed by time-resolved photoluminescence measurements, and the minority carrier lifetime deduced using the fast decay component increases with increasing treatment time. The relationship between photovoltaic properties and lifetime is clearly demonstrated. The best-performing CZTSe solar cell obtained using surface oxygen treatment demonstrates a conversion efficiency of 11.7%, which is higher than those of previous reports on CZTSe cells.
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