Solar energy is one of the abundant, non-polluting renewable energy options in our planet. During the last three decades considerable progress has been achieved in developing technologies to produce electricity from solar radiation, but producing electricity with low cost and low pollution is of concern. The CdTe solar cells are the leading source for the production of cost effective solar cells. The main issue of concern in these CdTe solar cells is degradation observed when stressed at elevated temperatures. The degradation in CdTe solar cells can be attributed to the back contact, which often contains Cu to improve the electronic properties of CdTe (absorber layer) and to enable a quasi ohmic back contact.The main objective of this thesis was to study effect of amount of Cu in the back contact and contact annealing temperature on device stability.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:USF/oai:scholarcommons.usf.edu:etd-3869 |
| Date | 01 June 2005 |
| Creators | Erra, Swetha |
| Publisher | Scholar Commons |
| Source Sets | University of South Flordia |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Graduate Theses and Dissertations |
| Rights | default |
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