Band alignment of front contact layers for high-efficiency CdTe solar cells

JM Kephart, JW McCamy, Z Ma, A Ganjoo… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Resistive oxide materials play an important role in the front contact of CdTe solar cells. The
high-resistance transparent (HRT) or “buffer” layer has been used extensively in CdTe thin …

Sputter-deposited oxides for interface passivation of CdTe photovoltaics

JM Kephart, A Kindvall, D Williams… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Commercial CdTe PV modules have polycrystalline thin films deposited on glass, and
devices made in this format have exceeded 22% efficiency. Devices made by the authors …

Directional perfect absorption using deep subwavelength low-permittivity films

TS Luk, S Campione, I Kim, S Feng, YC Jun, S Liu… - Physical Review B, 2014‏ - APS
We experimentally demonstrate single beam directional perfect absorption (to within
experimental accuracy) of p-polarized light in the near-infrared using unpatterned, deep …

Effects of annealing on the properties of CdZnTe epitaxial thick films deposited on p-GaAs using close-spaced sublimation

Y Li, K Cao, G Zha, W Zhang, Y Li, X Wan… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
CdZnTe epitaxial thick films were deposited on p-type GaAs (001) substrates using close-
spaced sublimation. In order to reduce defects in the CdZnTe/p-GaAs films and improve the …

Improvement of crystallinity of CdZnTe epilayers on GaSb substrates by ZnTe buffer layer

Y Li, X Zhang, X Wan, Y Liu, G Zha, K Cao, W Jie - Vacuum, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Thick CdZnTe epitaxial film is a promising alternative for X-ray detectors, especially in the
case of large-area imaging application. One of the key issues in growing thick …

Map** photovoltaic performance with nanoscale resolution

Y Kutes, BA Aguirre, JL Bosse… - Progress in …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Photo‐conductive AFM spectroscopy ('pcAFMs') is proposed as a high‐resolution approach
for investigating nanostructured photovoltaics, uniquely providing nanoscale maps of …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular dynamics simulations of CdTe/CdS heteroepitaxy—Effect of substrate orientation

JJ Chavez, XW Zhou, SF Almeida, R Aguirre… - J. Mater. Sci …, 2016‏ - researchgate.net
Molecular dynamics simulations were used to catalogue atomic scale structures of CdTe
films grown on eight wurtzite (wz) and zinc-blende (zb) CdS surfaces. Polytypism, grain …

Surface plasmon polariton enhanced ultrathin nano-structured CdTe solar cell

TS Luk, NT Fofang, JL Cruz-Campa, I Frank… - Optics …, 2014‏ - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate numerically that two-dimensional arrays of ultrathin CdTe nano-cylinders
on Ag can serve as an effective broadband anti-reflection structure for solar cell applications …

Nucleation and islands growth of CdZnTe (0 0 1) epitaxial films on GaAs (0 0 1) substrates by close spaced sublimation

K Cao, W Jie, G Zha, T Tan, Y Li, R Hu - Journal of Crystal Growth, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The early stages of close spaced sublimation growth of CdZnTe (0 0 1)/GaAs (0 0 1) epilayer
were experimentally studied under different substrate temperatures and ambient pressures …

Structural and optical properties of AgAlTe2 layers grown on sapphire substrates by closed space sublimation method

A Uruno, A Usui, M Kobayashi - Journal of Applied Physics, 2014‏ - pubs.aip.org
AgAlTe 2 layers were grown on a-and c-plane sapphire substrates using a closed space
sublimation method. Grown layers were confirmed to be single phase layers of AgAlTe 2 by …