Effect of Window-Layer Materials on p-n Junction Location in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells

Chun Sheng Jiang; Lorelle Mansfield; Stephen Glynn; Chuanxiao Xiao; Steven Christensen; Mowafak Al-Jassim; Rebekah Garris

doi:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2874039

Effect of Window-Layer Materials on p-n Junction Location in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells

Chun Sheng Jiang
, Lorelle Mansfield
, Stephen Glynn
, Chuanxiao Xiao
, Steven Christensen
, Mowafak Al-Jassim
, Rebekah Garris

Materials Science

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Abstract

We report on measurements of junction location in Cu(In,Ga)Se₂ (CIGS) solar cells with different window-layer materials by nm-resolution electrical potential/field profiling across the junction using Kelvin probe force microscopy imaging on cross-section of the devices. The results illustrate that the device with a CdS window layer (CdS/CIGS) has a buried homojunction located inside the CIGS absorber with ∼40-nm junction depth, whereas the ZnOS/CIGS devices with and without partial electrolyte treatment prior to the window-layer deposition are similar, exhibiting a heterointerface junction. This junction location may contribute in part to the highest efficiency of the CdS/CIGS device among the three devices.

Original language	American English
Article number	8494811
Pages (from-to)	308-312
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2874039 https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2874039
State	Published - Jan 2019

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Keywords

Cu(In
electrical potential/field
Ga)Se (CIGS)
Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM)
pn junction location
thinfilm solar cell
window layer.

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