Impact of the deposition conditions of buffer and windows layers on lowering the metastability effects in Cu(In,Ga)Se2/Zn(S,O)-based solar cell

Negar Naghavi; Thibaud Hildebrandt; Muriel Bouttemy; Arnaud Etcheberry; Daniel Lincot

doi:10.1117/12.2223151

27 February 2016 Impact of the deposition conditions of buffer and windows layers on lowering the metastability effects in Cu(In,Ga)Se₂/Zn(S,O)-based solar cell

Negar Naghavi, Thibaud Hildebrandt, Muriel Bouttemy, Arnaud Etcheberry, Daniel Lincot

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Proceedings Volume 9749, Oxide-based Materials and Devices VII; 97491I (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223151
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The highest and most reproducible (Cu(In,Ga)Se₂ (CIGSe) based solar-cell efficiencies are obtained by use of a very thin n-type CdS layer deposited by chemical bath deposition (CBD). However because of both Cadmium’s adverse environmental impact and the narrow bandgap of CdS (2.4–2.5 eV) one of the major objectives in the field of CIGSe technology remains the development and implementation in the production line of Cd-free buffer layers. The CBDZn( S,O) remains one the most studied buffer layer for replacing the CdS in Cu(In,Ga)Se₂-based solar cells and has already demonstrated its potential to lead to high-efficiency solar cells up to 22.3%. However one of the key issue to implement a CBD-Zn(S,O) process in a CIGSe production line is the cells stability, which depends both on the deposition conditions of CBD-Zn(S,O) and on a good band alignment between CIGSe/Zn(S,O)/windows layers. The most common window layers applied in CIGSe solar cells consist of two layers : a thin (50–100 nm) and highly resistive i-ZnO layer deposited by magnetron sputtering and a transparent conducting 300–500 nm ZnO:Al layer. In the case of CBD-Zn(S,O) buffer layer, the nature and deposition conditions of both Zn(S,O) and the undoped window layer can strongly influence the performance and stability of cells. The present contribution will be specially focused on the effect of condition growth of CBD-Zn(S,O) buffer layers and the impact of the composition and deposition conditions of the undoped window layers such as Zn_xMg_yO or Zn_xSn_yO on the stability and performance of these solar cells.

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Negar Naghavi, Thibaud Hildebrandt, Muriel Bouttemy, Arnaud Etcheberry, and Daniel Lincot "Impact of the deposition conditions of buffer and windows layers on lowering the metastability effects in Cu(In,Ga)Se₂/Zn(S,O)-based solar cell", Proc. SPIE 9749, Oxide-based Materials and Devices VII, 97491I (27 February 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223151

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