This research describes an investigation on the fabrication of CuInSe2-based thin-film solar cells with the device structure of Al/ZnO:Al/ZnO/CdS/CIS/Mo/SLG at the substrate temperature of 450oC, which is at least 100oC below the temperature currently used for depositing CIS thin films. A great advantage for the low temperature process is that the polymer material can be used as substrate and it is feasible to make lightweight and flexible thin-film solar cells. In this work, we used a co-evaporation technique with an introduction of Sb during the film deposition process to modify the film growth mechanisms and produce the CIS film with compact grain structure and smooth surface morphology. In most cases, there was only tiny amount of Sb existed in the film as a p-type dopant. In some cases, second phases of Sb compounds could be detected in the film as the Sb flux was kept too high during the film deposition stage.
The I-V characteristics measured under the AM1.5 condition for the solar cell using a CIS:Sb film as the absorber showed that the open circuit voltage (Voc) was 0.364 V, short circuit current (Jsc) was 48.16 mA/cm2, fill factor (FF) was 44.5%, and energy conversion efficiency (£b) was 8%. The device with the same layer structure except the use of CIS film prepared without the addition of Sb and at a higher substrate temperature of 550oC had a comparable device performance but a slightly lower efficiency, i.e. Voc=0.325 V, Jsc=48.54 mA/cm2, FF=45.1%, £b=7.4%. It is clear that a lower temperature process using Sb to modify the growth process can be successful to obtain a device quality CIS layer. In addition, a CIGS thin-film solar cell was also fabricated and its device properties were Voc=0.392 V, Jsc=37.28 mA/cm2, FF=46.2%, and £b=7.0%. We see that the addition of Ga to increase the bandgap do increase the Voc and decrease the Jsc. However, a low efficiency of this cell indicates that further improvement in fill factor of the cell is a necessary.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0829111-203028 |
| Date | 29 August 2011 |
| Creators | Li, Chou-cheng |
| Contributors | Mau-phon Houng, Tsung-ming Tsai, Bae-heng Tseng |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0829111-203028 |
| Rights | user_define, Copyright information available at source archive |
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