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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 85, Issue 13, Pages 2625-2627Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1793346
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In a previous paper [C.-S. Jiang , Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 3477 (2004)], we reported the existence of a local built-in potential on grain boundaries (GBs) of photovoltaic Cu(In,Ga)Se-2 (CIGS) thin films. However, whether the built-in potential benefits photovoltaic properties of the device has not been proven. Using a scanning Kelvin probe microscope, we found that, with increasing Ga content in the CIGS film, the built-in potential on the GB drops sharply in a Ga range of 28%-38%. Comparing the changes in the built-in potential, the device efficiency, and the CIGS band gap, we conclude that the built-in potential on the GB plays a significant role in the device conversion efficiency of NREL's three-stage CIGS device. (C) American Institute of Physics.
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