Cadmium telluride (CdTe)-based cells have emerged as the leading commercialized thin
film photovoltaic technology and has intrinsically better temperature coefficients, energy …

This first comprehensive description of the most important material properties and device
aspects closes the gap between general books on solar cells and journal articles on …

Small-area Cu (In, Ga) Se2 thin film solar cells have reached more than 19% efficiencies.
Compared to other polycrystalline materials this efficiency value is remarkable …

This paper details the laboratory processes used to fabricate CdS/CdTe solar cells at the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The basic fabrication technique includes low …

Processing options for addressing critical issues associated with the fabrication of thin film
CdTe solar cells are presented, including window and buffer layer processing, post …

This work investigates the influence of lateral fluctuations of the fundamental band gap on
the macroscopic light absorptance and emission spectra of spatially inhomogeneous …

As the development of kesterite solar cells accelerates, the bottlenecks in device
performance need to be identified and ways for their circumvention defined and developed …

Spatial variations of the electronic properties of solar cells are simulated with the help of a
multi-diode model. Increasing the local series resistance limits the degradation of the overall …

The performance of CdTe solar cells as prototype of thin film solar cells strongly depends on
film morphology. The needs for high solar cell performance using thin film materials will be …

Doped layers made of nanostructured silicon phases embedded in a silicon oxide matrix
were implemented in thin film silicon solar cells. Their combination with optimized deposition …