Cu migration and its impact on the metastable behavior of CdTe solar cells

Da Guo; Richard Akis; Daniel Brinkman; Andrew Moore; Tian Fang; Igor Sankin; Christian Ringhofer; Dragica Vasileska

doi:10.1557/opl.2015.349

Cu migration and its impact on the metastable behavior of CdTe solar cells

Da Guo, Richard Akis, Daniel Brinkman, Andrew Moore, Tian Fang, Igor Sankin, Christian Ringhofer, Dragica Vasileska

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Abstract

In this work, we report on development of one-dimensional reaction-diffusion simulator needed to understand the kinetics of Cu-related metastabilities observed in CdTe PV devices. Evolution of intrinsic and Cu-related defects in CdTe solar cells has been studied in time-space domain self-consistently with free carrier transport. Resulting device performance was simulated as a function of stress time, thus showing pronounced effect that the evolution of associated acceptor and donor states can cause on device characteristics. Although ID simulation has intrinsic limitations when applied to poly-crystalline films, the results presented confirm the validity and the potential of the approach presented in better understanding of the performance and metastabilities of CdTe photovoltaic devices.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Recent Advances in Photovoltaics
Publisher	Materials Research Society
Pages	59-65
Number of pages	7
Volume	1771
ISBN (Electronic)	9781605117485
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2015.349
State	Published - 2016
Event	2015 MRS Spring Meeting - San Francisco, United States Duration: Apr 6 2015 → Apr 10 2015

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Other	2015 MRS Spring Meeting
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	4/6/15 → 4/10/15

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