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Preparation and Characterization of Cu-Ga-Se Films of Ordered Vacancy Compound

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

S. Nishiwaki ,
S. Siebentritt  and
M. Ch. Lux-Steiner
S. Nishiwaki
Affiliation:
Lux-Steiner Hahn-Meitner-Institute Berlin, Glienicker Str. 100, D-14109 Berlin, Germany
S. Siebentritt
Affiliation:
Lux-Steiner Hahn-Meitner-Institute Berlin, Glienicker Str. 100, D-14109 Berlin, Germany
M. Ch. Lux-Steiner
Affiliation:
Lux-Steiner Hahn-Meitner-Institute Berlin, Glienicker Str. 100, D-14109 Berlin, Germany
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Abstract

Cu-Ga-Se films with an orderd vacancy compound (OVC) structure were prepared at substrate temperature about 500 °C by thermal co-deposition. With a preparation under extremely Se excess condition, films of the OVC were synthesized within the compositional ratio of 0.73 ≤ [Ga]/([Cu]+[Ga]) ≤ 0.86 along Cu2Se-Ga2Se3 pseudo binary system. The growth on soda-lime glass substrates improves the crystallinity compared to that on alkali-free glass. An increase in the optical bandgaps of OVC films from 1.85 eV to 1.94 eV was observed with an increase in the Ga content of the films. The deposition of Cu and Se onto Ga2Se3 films resulted in a vertically inhomogeneous film: the bottom layer with the OVC structure and the top layer with the chalcopyrite structure. A solar cell using the CuGa5.0Se8.1 film within a ZnO/CdS/CuGa-Se/Mo/soda-lime glass substrate structure showed an open circuit voltage of 947 mV, an efficiency of 2.2 %, a short circuit current density of 4.5 mA/cm2, and a fill factor of 0.52 (Air Mass 1.5, 0.5 cm2, total area).

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 763: Symposium B – Compound Semiconductor Photovoltaics , 2003 , B5.18
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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