Journal
SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS
Volume 247, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2022.111925
Keywords
Cadmium telluride; Transient absorption; Ultrafast photocarrier dynamics; Low pump intensity
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFA0208700, 2019YFE0120000]
- Science and Technology Program of Sichuan Province [2021YFG0102, 2019YFG0513, 2019ZDZX0015]
- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences [I202003]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21688102, 61704115]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB17000000]
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This research investigated the photocarrier dynamics in polycrystalline CdTe films and found that it is strongly dependent on the pump intensity. Under low pump intensity, the lifetime of free carriers is shortened due to rapid trapping by defects.
The photocarrier dynamics in polycrystalline CdTe films is closely related to device performance. However, the test results obtained at different illumination intensity may be different, and even significantly deviate from the ones in practical application environments. Here, the photocarrier dynamics in polycrystalline CdTe films deposited by thermal evaporation was studied through time-resolved transient absorption (TA) under different pump intensity. It was found that the behavior of photocarriers in CdTe films is strongly dependent on the pump intensity. Under low pump intensity close to operating environment of solar cells, the lifetime of free carriers becomes extremely short compared to high intensity, which is interpreted as a rapid trapping of free carriers by defects. For low pump intensity, numerical fitting by a physical model with one defect level shows that the free carriers in band-edge can be rapidly trapped by defects within tens of picoseconds and then slowly recover to the ground state within several nanoseconds. These results provide a meaningful reference to understand the pho-tocarrier dynamics of CdTe polycrystalline films with a low excess carrier concentration close to that under AM1.5G illumination.
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