Progress in fabricating Cu(In,Ga)S2 based solar cells with Zn(S,O) buffer is presented. An efficiency of 12.9% was achieved. Using spectral response, current-voltage and temperature dependent current-voltage measurements, current transport in this junction was studied and compared to that of a highly efficient CdS/Cu(In,Ga)S2 solar cell with a special focus on recombination mechanisms. Independently of the buffer type and despite the difference in band alignment of the two junctions, interface recombination is found to be the main recombination channel in both cases. This was unexpected since it is generally assumed that a cliff facilitates interface recombination while a spike suppresses it.
In this letter, we report externally confirmed total area efficiencies reaching up to 12.9% for CdS/Cu(In,Ga)S 2 based solar cells. These are the highest externally confirmed efficiencies for such cells. The absorbers were prepared from sputtered metals subsequently sulfurized using rapid thermal processing in sulfur vapor. Structural, compositional, and electrical properties of one of these champion cells are presented. The correlation between the Ga distribution profile and solar cell properties is discussed.
We report the effect of plasma parameters on the properties of ultrathin Al 2 O 3 films prepared by plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition for moisture barrier applications. The Al 2 O 3 films were grown at 90 °C using trimethylaluminum and O 2 plasma as precursors. Plasma power, exposure time and O 2 concentration are found to influence the growth behavior, composition and density of ultrathin Al 2 O 3 films. Plasma power ; 100 W leads to lower impurity levels and higher mass densities of >2.85 g&cm %3 . The optimum plasma parameters for our process, a plasma power of 100 W and an exposure time of 3 s, reveal a good water vapor transmission rate of 5 ' 10 %3 g&m %2 &day %1 for polyethylene naphthalate substrates coated with 4 nm-thick Al 2 O 3 films.
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