Review of grain interior, grain boundary, and interface effects of K in CIGS solar cells: Mechanisms for performance enhancement

CP Muzzillo - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Introducing K into Cu (In, Ga)(Se, S) 2 (CIGS) absorbers has led to recent world
record power conversion efficiencies for thin film polycrystalline solar cells. In this work, the …

Effect of the KF post-deposition treatment on grain boundary properties in Cu(In, Ga)Se2 thin films

N Nicoara, T Lepetit, L Arzel, S Harel, N Barreau… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Significant power conversion efficiency improvements have recently been achieved for thin-
film solar cells based on a variety of polycrystalline absorbers, including perovskites, CdTe …

Correlative transmission Kikuchi diffraction and atom probe tomography study of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 grain boundaries

T Schwarz, G Stechmann, B Gault… - Progress in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We combined transmission Kikuchi diffraction and atom probe tomography techniques to
investigate the relationship between the structure and chemistry of grain boundaries in Cu …

Nanoscale insight into the p‐n junction of alkali‐incorporated Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells

A Stokes, M Al‐Jassim, A Norman… - Progress in …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of alkali diffusion and post‐deposition treatment in three‐stage processed Cu (In,
Ga) Se2 solar cells are examined by using atom probe tomography and electrical property …

Optical investigation of voltage losses in high-efficiency Cu (In, Ga) Se2 thin-film solar cells

M Wolter - 2019 - orbilu.uni.lu
The increases in power conversion efficiencies up to 23.35% in thin-film Cu (In, Ga) Se2
(CIGS) solar cells in recent years can mainly be ascribed to the alkali post-deposition …

[PDF][PDF] In2S3 alternative buffer layers for Cu (In, Ga) Se2 solar cells deposited by RF magnetron sputtering

P Soni - scholar.archive.org
A thin semiconducting material of thickness∼ 50 nm known as a buffer layer is the key for
obtaining high efficiencies in Cu (In, Ga) Se2 (CIGSe) thin film solar cells. A thin buffer layer …