Journal
IEEE JOURNAL OF PHOTOVOLTAICS
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 906-911Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2019.2899962
Keywords
Ag alloying; Cu(In,Ga)Se-2 (CIGS) solar cells; potassium fluoride post-deposition treatment (KF-PDT)
Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [1507351]
- NSF [1428149]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1428149] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1507351] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Silver alloying and KF post-deposition treatments are explored as approaches to increase the efficiency of low bandgap CuInSe2 (CIS) solar cells. The KF treatment prevents a loss in V-OC when CIS has a thinner CdS layer, and also increases the carrier concentration of these devices. Compared with CIS devices, Ag alloyed CIS (ACIS) devices have lower efficiencies due to a lower carrier concentration which decreases VOC. When ACIS is exposed to the KF treatment, the resulting devices have reduced VOC and fill factor (FF) compared with untreated devices; however, thinning the CdS layer with KF-treated ACIS improves VOC. ACIS+KF films show an unidentified compound in Raman spectra and the resulting solar cells have a dominant interface recombination mechanism and light-to-dark crossover. An electron microscopy study of the growth and coverage of CdS reveals that KF-treated samples in this study have faster CdS growth and ACIS+KF has complete CdS coverage with less than half of the normal deposition time. Improved coverage of CdS layers on KF-treated samples is also verified by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Finally, using a heat treatment and an anti-reflection layer enables CIS+KF solar cells to obtain a high 16.0% efficiency for CIS with a V-OC = 526 mV and J(SC) = 41.0 mA/cm(2).
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