Investigation of selenization and various CBD CdS deposition conditions to fabricate high performing spray pyrolysis synthesized Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 solar cells

Muhammad Aamir Hassan; Mohammad Mujahid; Shin Woei Leow; Li WenJie; Rajiv Ramanujam Prabhakar; Lydia Helena Wong

doi:10.1063/1.4976019

Investigation of selenization and various CBD CdS deposition conditions to fabricate high performing spray pyrolysis synthesized Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)₂ solar cells

Muhammad Aamir Hassan, Mohammad Mujahid^*, Shin Woei Leow, Li WenJie, Rajiv Ramanujam Prabhakar, Lydia Helena Wong

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Abstract

Semiconducting thin-films of CIGS were deposited by spray pyrolysis of aqueous precursor solutions. The as-sprayed thin films were then selenized at different temperatures and durations to obtain the optimized selenization conditions (500 °C for 10 min). The chemical bath deposition process was used to deposit cadmium sulphide (CdS) using two different cadmium sources (cadmium acetate and cadmium sulphate) at various deposition times followed by post CdS annealing. Solar cells fabricated with CdS as the buffer layer using cadmium acetate show power conversion efficiency of 9.91% owing to its higher transmission and smaller grain size.

Original language	English
Article number	013504
Journal	Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4976019
Publication status	Published - Jan 1 2017
Externally published	Yes

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