Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 7745-7755Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c20976
Keywords
chalcopyrites; thin-film solar cells; alkali fluoride postdeposition treatments; interfaces; band diagram; Kelvin probe; photoemission spectroscopy
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The study shows that KF-PDT and RbF-PDT have a significant impact on the electronic properties of CIGSe thin films and the CdS/CIGSe interface, with the CIGSe surface band gap depending on the type of postdeposition treatment and a thin layer with a graded band gap found at the CdS/CIGSe interface. K and Rb act as compensating acceptors in the CdS layer.
Ambient-pressure Kelvin probe and photoelectron yield spectroscopy methods were employed to investigate the impact of the KF and RbF postdeposition treatments (KF-PDT, RbF-PDT) on the electronic features of Cu(In,Ga)Se-2 (CIGSe) thin films and the CdS/CIGSe interface in a CdS thickness series that has been sequentially prepared during the chemical bath deposition (CBD) process depending on the deposition time. We observe distinct features correlated to the CBD-CdS growth stages. In particular, we find that after an initial CBD etching stage, the valence band maximum (VBM) of the CIGSe surface is significantly shifted (by 180-620 mV) toward the Fermi level. However, VBM positions at the surface of the CIGSe are still much below the VBM of the CIGSe bulk. The CIGSe surface band gap is found to depend on the type of postdeposition treatment, showing values between 1.46 and 1.58 eV, characteristic for a copperpoor CIGSe surface composition. At the CdS/CIGSe interface, the lowest VBM discontinuity is observed for the RbF-PDT sample. At this interface, a thin layer with a graded band gap is found. We also find that K and Rb act as compensating acceptors in the CdS layer. Detailed energy band diagrams of the CdS/CIGSe heterostructures are proposed.
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