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Role of substrate and transparent conducting oxide in impurity evolvement in polycrystalline thin-film devices

Emziane, M.; Durose, K.; Halliday, D.P.; Bosio, A.; Romeo, N.

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Authors

M. Emziane

K. Durose

A. Bosio

N. Romeo



Abstract

A comparison of as-grown and processed CdTe/CdS solar cell structures deposited on sapphire substrate has been undertaken with those grown on glass. The device structures were depth-profiled using quantitative secondary ion mass spectrometry. It was shown that while Si concentration profiles are similar to those for structures grown on glass, Na was more than one order of magnitude lower when sapphire was used instead of glass, showing that Na diffused from the glass. It was also found that there was no measurable diffusion of Sn from the SnO2 layer into CdTe, and that the former played an important role in preventing the diffusion of In from In-containing transparent conducting oxide layer. Cl, O, Br, and F species were also investigated and while Cl and O were found to be independent of the nature of the substrate used, Br and F were shown to be affected by the processing.

Citation

Emziane, M., Durose, K., Halliday, D., Bosio, A., & Romeo, N. (2005). Role of substrate and transparent conducting oxide in impurity evolvement in polycrystalline thin-film devices. Applied Physics Letters, 87(25), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2149990

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Dec 19, 2005
Deposit Date Dec 4, 2006
Publicly Available Date Apr 21, 2011
Journal Applied Physics Letters
Print ISSN 0003-6951
Electronic ISSN 1077-3118
Publisher American Institute of Physics
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 87
Issue 25
DOI https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2149990
Keywords Solar-cell-structures.

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© 2005 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Emziane, M. and Durose, K. and Halliday, D. P. and Bosio, A. and Romeo, N (2005) 'Role of substrate and transparent conducting oxide in impurity evolvement in polycrystalline thin-film devices.', Applied physics letters., 87 (25). p. 251913 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2149990







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