16.0% efficient thin-film CdS/CdTe solar cells

Author

Ohyama, Hideaki ; Aramoto, Tetsuya ; Kumazawa, Seiji ; Higuchi, Hiroshi ; Arita, Takashi ; Shibutani, Satoshi ; Nishio, Tuyoshi ; Nakajima, Junji ; Tsuji, Miwa ; Hanafusa, Akira ; Hibino, Takeshi ; Omura, Kuniyoshi ; Murozono, Mikio

Author_Institution

PV Res. & Dev. Center, Matsushita Battery Ind. Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan

fYear

1997

fDate

29 Sep-3 Oct 1997

Firstpage

343

Lastpage

346

Abstract

High efficiency cadmium sulfide (CdS)/cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells have been developed using ultra-thin CdS films having a thickness of 50 nm. CdS films deposited on indium tin oxide (IT0)/ 1737 glass substrates by the metal organic chemical vapor deposition technique, and CdTe films subsequently deposited by the close-spaced sublimation technique were used for the fabrication of CdS/CdTe solar cells. A photovoltaic conversion efficiency of 16.0% under Air Mass (AM) 1.5 conditions has been measured by the Japan Quality Assurance Organization

Keywords

CVD coatings; II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; chemical vapour deposition; semiconductor thin films; solar cells; sublimation; 16 percent; CdS-CdTe; CdS/CdTe thin-film solar cells; close-spaced sublimation technique; indium tin oxide/ 1737 glass substrates; metal organic chemical vapor deposition technique; photovoltaic conversion efficiency; solar cell fabrication; ultra-thin CdS films; Cadmium compounds; Chemical vapor deposition; Fabrication; Glass; Indium tin oxide; Organic chemicals; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Substrates; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1997., Conference Record of the Twenty-Sixth IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3767-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.1997.654098

Filename

654098