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Effect of selenium and chlorine co-passivation in polycrystalline CdSeTe devices

Journal

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 115, Issue 15, Pages -

Publisher

AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5123169

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Funding

  1. U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO) [DE-EE00007545]
  2. NSF MRI-R2 grant [DMR-0959470]
  3. National Science Foundation MRI Program [DMR-1626065]
  4. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
  5. Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
  6. Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
  7. National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) [1821526]
  8. Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) from Argonne National Laboratory by the Office of Science, of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC0206CH11357]
  9. U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO) at Colorado State University [DE-EE0008177, DE-EE0008557]
  10. Div Of Industrial Innovation & Partnersh
  11. Directorate For Engineering [1821526] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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CdTe-based solar cell efficiency has rapidly improved over the last few years. Some of the reasons have been a change to the absorber composition including the incorporation of selenium, and better front contact and emitter materials in CdTe photovoltaic devices. In addition to the increase in short-circuit current by reducing the bandgap, Se plays other important roles in passivation of defects thus improving the conversion efficiency of CdSeTe/CdTe graded absorber photovoltaic devices. Here, we combine structural and optical characterizations with first principles calculations to investigate the role of Se and Cl segregation in CdSeTe devices. We find that in the presence of Se and Cl, the minority carrier lifetime improves due to a reduction of midgap defect states. We also correlate this effect with defect passivation in CdSeTe devices and suggest innovative ways to further improve CdTe-based photovoltaic efficiency.

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