Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 7, Issue 40, Pages 22497-22503Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06666
Keywords
Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)(2); ESAVD deposition; selenization; thin film; solar cells
Funding
- University College London
- European Union [284486]
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Chalcopyrite Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)(2) (CIGSSe) thin films have been deposited by a novel, nonvacuum, and cost-effective electrostatic spray-assisted vapor deposition (ESAVD) method. The generation of a fine aerosol of precursor solution, and their controlled deposition onto a molybdenum substrate, results in adherent, dense, and uniform Cu(In,Ga)S-2 (CIGS) films. This is an essential tool to keep the interfacial area of thin film solar cells to a minimum value for efficient charge separation as it helps to achieve the desired surface smoothness uniformity for subsequent cadmium sulfide and window layer deposition. This nonvacuum aerosol based approach for making the CIGSSe film uses environmentally benign precursor solution, and it is cheaper for producing solar cells than that of the vacuum-based thin film solar technology. An optimized CIGSSe thin film solar cell with a device configuration of molybdenum-coated soda-lime glass substrate/CIGSSe/CdS/i-ZnO/AZO shows the photovoltaic (j-V) characteristics of V-oc = 0.518 V, j(sc) = 28.79 mA cm(-2), fill factor = 64.02%, and a promising power conversion efficiency of eta = 9.55% under simulated AM 1.5 100 mW cm(-2) illuminations, without the use of an antireflection layer. This demonstrates the potential of ESAVD deposition as a promising alternative approach for making thin film CIGSSe solar cells at a lower cost.
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