Analysis of the influence on the performance degradation of CdTe solar cells by the front contact

被引：11

作者：

Artegiani, Elisa ^{[1
]}

Menossi, Daniele ^{[1
]}

Salavei, Andrei ^{[1
,2
]}

di Mare, Simone ^{[1
]}

Romeo, Alessandro ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Verona, Dept Comp Sci, Lab Appl Phys, Ca Vignal 1,Str Le Grazie 15, I-37134 Verona, Italy

[2] Calyxo Gmbh, Bitterfeld, Germany

来源：

THIN SOLID FILMS | 2017年 / 633卷

关键词：

Solar cells; Cadmium telluride; Transparent conducting oxide; Stability; FILM;

D O I：

10.1016/j.tsf.2016.09.052

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

CdTe thin film solar cells have shown to be competitive in terms of scalability and efficiency, the latest record efficiency exceeds 22%. Because of the CdTe high electron affinity the insertion of copper has demonstrated to deliver the highest efficiency device, however degrading the cell. For this reason other possible degradation effects are generally neglected. In this work CdTe solar cells were prepared with different transparent conductive oxides (TCOs), delivering similar conversion efficiencies. However aged cells show that stability is strictly connected with the different TCOs. Analysis of capacitance-voltage and drive level capacitance profiling shows a different defects distribution for solar cells with less stable front contact and admittance spectroscopy highlights the different defects formation after aging. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：101 / 105

页数：5

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