Characteristics of TAA-ZnS Buffer Layer by Addition of Sodium Citrate for CIGS Thin Film Solar Cell

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作者
Park, Jeong Eun [1 ]
Park, So Mang [2 ]
Ji, Eun [2 ]
Lim, Donggun [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Korea Natl Univ Transportat, Dept Elect Engn, 50 Daehak Ro, Chungju Si 27469, Chungbuk, South Korea
[2] Korea Natl Univ Transportat, Dept IT Convergence, 50 Daehak Ro, Chungju Si 27469, Chungbuk, South Korea
关键词
CIGS Thin Film Solar Cell; ZnS Buffer Layer; Thioacetamide; Sodium Citrate;
D O I
10.1166/jnn.2020.18764
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
Zinc Sulfide (ZnS) is an environmentally friendly material with a wide bandgap (E-g = 3.7 eV) comparable to that of cadmium sulfide (CdS) (2.4 eV), which is conventionally used as buffer layer in Cu(In,Ga)Se-2 (CIGS) thin film solar cells. Conventional ZnS buffer layers are manufactured using thiourea, and, these layers possess a disadvantage in that their deposition rate is lower than that of CdS buffer layers. In this paper, thioacetamide (TAA) was used as a sulfur precursor instead of thiourea to increase the deposition rate. However, the ZnS thin films deposited with TAA exhibited a higher roughness than the ZnS thin films deposited with thiourea. Sodium citrate was therefore added to increase the uniformity and decrease the roughness of the former ZnS thin films. When sodium citrate was used, the thin films demonstrated a high transmittance via the controlled generation of particles. In the case of TAA-ZnS thin films doped with a sodium citrate concentration of 0.04 M, the granules on the surface disappeared and these thin films were denser than the TAA-ZnS thin films deposited with a lower sodium citrate concentration. It is considered that the rate of the ion-by-ion reaction increased due to the addition of sodium citrate, thereby resulting in a uniform thin film. Consequently, TAA-ZnS thin films with thicknesses of approximately 40 nm and high transmittances of 83% were obtained when a sodium citrate concentration of 0.04 M was used.
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