High-concentration silver alloying and steep back-contact gallium grading enabling copper indium gallium selenide solar cell with 23.6% efficiency

J Keller, K Kiselman, O Donzel-Gargand, NM Martin… - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
… The resulting back surface field, created by a gradient in electron … When the absorber is
deposited via the multi-stage co-… More sophisticated methods are needed to study the effect of …

Influence of Ga back grading on voltage loss in low‐temperature co‐evaporated Cu (In, Ga) Se2 thin film solar cells

SC Yang, M Ochoa, R Hertwig, A Aribia… - Progress in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… A certified Si solar cell was used for calibration. Capacitance… of a multi-stage deposition
with indicative Cu, In, Ga … In the first and second approach, we implemented steeper gallium

CuInxGa1-xS2 absorber material for thin-film solar cells

MS Pradeepkumar, MI Ahmad - Advanced Ceramic Coatings for Emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
… energy by utilizing the photovoltaic effect. In simple terms, a … The crucial component of any
solar cell device is absorber … across the absorber layer gives rise to the bandgap grading. …

DESIGN OF A THREE-STAGE PROCESS, PHOTOLUMINESCENCE AND DEFECT SPECTROSCOPY OF CU (IN, GA) S2

D Adeleye - 2022 - orbilu.uni.lu
… highly efficient solar cell devices, the Cu(In,Ga)S2 absorber … diffusion rates of gallium and
indium during absorber growth. In … the multi-stage deposition methods described in Section 3.6. …

Challenges in the deposition of (Ag, Cu)(In, Ga) Se2 absorber layers for thin-film solar cells

S Essig, S Paetel, TM Friedlmeier… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
… the (Ag,Cu)(Ga,In)Se 2 system and its impact on the solar cell … and gallium are evaporated
leading to the desired final Cu,Ag-… Details about the used multi-stage (A)CIGS deposition tool …

Realizing double graded CIGSe absorbers with the R2R Hybrid-CIGSe-process

N Weinberger, D Stock, J Mesle… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… This contribution focuses on the introduction of gallium in the … influence re-evaporation
effects during layer formation. Both … ., “Cu deficiency in multi-stage co-evaporated Cu(In,Ga)Se2

[PDF][PDF] Characterization of alkaline-doped wide bandgap chalcopyrite Cu (In, Ga) Se2 thin films and solar cells

S Zahedi-Azad - 2020 - opendata.uni-halle.de
… The Cu(In,Ga)Se2 absorbers with high-gallium content have … For all solar cell samples
mentioned in this thesis a … of the absorber with the modified recipe and the multi-stage process is …

Formation of Cu (In, Ga) S2 chalcopyrite thin films following a 3-stage co-evaporation process

A Thomere, N Barreau, N Stephant… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
impact of GGI increase is their relative amount within layer B. … absorbers synthesized by this
process achieved solar cell … the lowered gallium content of absorbers surfaces independent …

[PDF][PDF] Preparation and characterization of device grade films for CIGSe-based solar cells= Preparación y caracterización de capas delgadas grado dispositivo para …

OM Nwakanma - 2021 - repositorio.cinvestav.mx
… the copper-indium-gallium-selenium (CIGSe) absorber layer, with a … resistive effects causes
a dissipation of powers in the solar cell, … Their presence in the solar cell absorber is highly …

Efficiency enhancement of copper indium gallium selenide solar cells fabricated on polyimide foils with multiple metal layers

Y Liu, Y Li, J Tang, W Zhang, B Lin, Y Cao - Thin Solid Films, 2023 - Elsevier
… NaF to obtain thin-film solar-cell devices on polyimide (PI) … thermal deformation, and the effect
became more significant with … at 520 C due to lower absorber film quality. Longer treatment …