Research progress in doped absorber layer of CdTe solar cells

Y Wang, G Wang, Y Zhou, Q **
G Kartopu, O Oklobia, D Turkay, DR Diercks… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Do** of CdTe using Group-V elements (As, P, and Sb) has gained interest in
pursuit of increasing the cell voltage of CdTe thin film solar devices. Studies on bulk CdTe …

Research strategies toward improving thin-film CdTe photovoltaic devices beyond 20% conversion efficiency

TA Gessert, SH Wei, J Ma, DS Albin, RG Dhere… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2013 - Elsevier
Recent studies of thin-film CdS/CdTe photovoltaic (PV) devices have suggested that a
significantly higher device performance will not be achieved unless recombination in the …

Identification of Recombination Losses in CdSe/CdTe Solar Cells from Spectroscopic and Microscopic Time‐Resolved Photoluminescence

D Kuciauskas, J Moseley, C Lee - Solar RRL, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the lowest‐cost and best reliability, CdTe solar cells are the leading thin‐film
photovoltaic technology. Increasing open‐circuit voltage by reducing recombination …

Minority carrier lifetime analysis in the bulk of thin-film absorbers using subbandgap (two-photon) excitation

D Kuciauskas, A Kanevce, JM Burst… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe a new time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) analysis method for the
determination of minority carrier lifetime τ_B. This analysis is based on subbandgap …

Electrical characterization and comparison of CIGS solar cells made with different structures and fabrication techniques

RL Garris, S Johnston, JV Li, HL Guthrey… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract In a previous paper [1], we reported on Cu (In, Ga) Se 2-based (CIGS) solar cell
samples collected from different research laboratories and industrial companies with the …

Epitaxial CdTe thin films on mica by vapor transport deposition for flexible solar cells

X Wen, Z Lu, X Sun, Y **ang, Z Chen… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Most high-quality CdTe thin films are epitaxially grown on single-crystalline substrates
through chemical bondings by either molecular beam epitaxy or metalorganic chemical …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of Cu on recombination in high voltage CdTe solar cells

D Kuciauskas, P Dippo, A Kanevce, Z Zhao… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Using photoluminescence spectroscopy, we construct a recombination model for state-of-the-
art CdTe solar cells doped with Cu. We observe that Cu on Cd sites form a dominant …