Foil mounted thin-film solar cells for space and terrestrial applications

被引：15

作者：

McClure, JC ^{[1
]}

Singh, VP

Lush, GB

Clark, E

Thompson, G

机构：

[1] Univ Texas, Dept Met & Mat Engn, El Paso, TX 79968 USA

[2] Univ Texas, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, El Paso, TX 79968 USA

[3] NASA, Lewis Res Ctr, Cleveland, OH 44135 USA

来源：

SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS | 1998年 / 55卷 / 1-2期

基金：

美国国家航空航天局;

关键词：

solar cells; photovoltaics; CdTe; Cds;

D O I：

10.1016/S0927-0248(98)00054-3

中图分类号：

TE [石油、天然气工业]; TK [能源与动力工程];

学科分类号：

0807 ; 0820 ;

摘要：

The developing photovoltaic market for civilian communications satellites has caused a reassessment of the traditional single-crystal cells used in space. Thin-him cells mounted on metal foil substrates offer considerable weight, manufacturing, and radiation resistance advantages. These same cells can solve the manufacturing problems of glass breakage and temperature uniformity in cells intended for terrestrial applications. This paper describes work on a back-wall CdS/CdTe cell on molybdenum foils. Large grained adherent films of CdTe are formed. A thin interlayer of Cu and Te between the CdTe and the molybdenum formed a low resistance (less than 1 Ohm cm(2)) ohmic contact. The cell is completed with a sputtered indium tin oxide top contact layer and a V-oc of 580 mV was obtained. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：141 / 148

页数：8

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