Title :
Flexible and light weight copper indium diselenide solar cells
Author :
B.M. Basol;V.K. Kapur;C.R. Leidholm;A. Halani
Author_Institution :
Int. Solar Electr. Technol., Inglewood, CA, USA
Abstract :
Thin film flexible CuInSe/sub 2/ (CIS) solar cells have been fabricated on light-weight and flexible metallic and polymeric substrates. Evaporated Cu-In alloy precursors were selenized in an H/sub 2/Se atmosphere at around 400/spl deg/C to grow the CIS absorber layers. CdS and ZnO window layers were deposited using the chemical bath deposition technique and MOCVD, respectively. The demonstrated active area AM0 conversion efficiency of 9.3%, and the specific power of >1 kW/kg make the polyimide-based light-weight CIS device very attractive for certain space power generation applications where high specific power and mechanical flexibility are desired.
Keywords :
"Copper","Indium","Photovoltaic cells","Computational Intelligence Society","Polymer films","Substrates","Atmosphere","Zinc oxide","Chemicals","MOCVD"
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1996., Conference Record of the Twenty Fifth IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3166-4
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.1996.563971
