Thick film technology offers advantages of low cost, product amenability and automation. This technology has been successful in the manufacture of solar cells using CdS/CdTe heterojunctions. It enables the use of the same equipment in various processes involved in manufacturing solar cells. In the present work, n-CdS/p-CuInSe2 solar cells are prepared by screen printing and sintering pastes which contain the semiconductors. An efficiency of 8.75% is achieved. Electron affinity difference, saturation current and diode quality factor are measured. They are 0.49 eV, (0.9–1.8)×10-7 A, 1.5 respectively. Microstructure and electrical properties of sintered CdS films containing 10, 20, 30 and 40 wt% CdCl2 are investigated. Optimum results are obtained for the CdS films containing 10 wt% CdCl2.

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The effect of electron beam irradiation on the structure and optical properties of a PM-355 solid-state nuclear track detector has been investigated. Samples from PM-355 were irradiated with electron beams with different doses ranging from 20 to 250 kGy. The structural and optical modifications in the electron beam-irradiated PM-355 samples have been studied as a function of dose using different characterization techniques such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Vickers hardness, refractive index and color difference measurements. The Commission International de E'Claire (CIE units x, y and z) methodology was used in this work for the description of colored samples. In addition, the color differences between the non-irradiated sample and those irradiated with different electron beam doses were calculated. The results indicate that the PM-355 detector acquires color changes under electron beam irradiation.

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