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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 47, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/47/13/135101
Keywords
optical constant; CIGSe; TCO substrate; substrate temperature
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- Helmholtz-Association for Young Investigator groups within the Initiative and Networking fund [VH-NG-928]
- China Scholarship Council
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We investigate the influence of substrate and its temperature on the optical constants of CuIn1-xGaxSe2 (CIGSe) thin films using the transfer-matrix method. The optical constants of a CIGSe layer on top of a transparent conducting oxide (TCO) layer were calculated considering the realistic optical constants of the TCO layer after CIGSe deposition. It was found that TCO substrates could influence the optical constants of CIGSe layers and that the ITO (Sn doped In2O3) substrate had a greater impact than IMO (Mo doped In2O3) for the CIGSe (x = 0.4) film when compared to a reference on bare glass substrate. Additionally, the varied substrate temperatures did not impact the optical constants of CGSe (x = 1). For CIGSe (x = 0.4), the refractive index n stayed relatively independent although at low temperature the grain size was reduced and the Ga/(Ga+ In) profile was altered compared to that at high temperature (610 degrees C). In contrast, the extinction coefficient k at low temperature showed higher absorption at longer wavelengths because of a lower minimum bandgap (E-g,min) originating from reduced inter-diffusion of Ga-Se at a low substrate temperature.
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