Title :
Design considerations for thin film CuInSe2, and other polycrystalline heterojunction solar cells
Author :
Schwartz, R.J. ; Gray, J.L. ; Lee, Y.J.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
The design considerations which allow the fabrication of efficient thin-film solar cells in despite the presence of `dead´ layers is discussed. CIS thin-film cells are used as a particular example but the conclusions apply to a variety of thin-film cells. The effects of the application of these design principles are illustrated using the results of numerical simulations of CdS/CuInSe2 solar cells, since these cells are reasonably mature in both their modeling and fabrication and offer experimental verification of the theory presented
Keywords :
II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; copper compounds; indium compounds; semiconductor thin films; solar cells; ternary semiconductors; CdS-CuInSe2 solar cells; numerical simulations; polycrystalline heterojunction solar cells; semiconductor thin films; Computational Intelligence Society; Conducting materials; Electron emission; Heterojunctions; Lattices; Photonic band gap; Photovoltaic cells; Spontaneous emission; Sputtering; Transistors;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the Twenty Second IEEE
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-636-5
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.1991.169343
