Friesen, Gabi and Dunlop, Ewan D. and Wendt, R.
(2001)
Investigation of CdTe solar cells via capacitance and impedance measurements.
Abstract
Two CdTe solar cells with very different IV-characteristics were analysed using impedance spectroscopy (IS) and capacitance-voltage (CV) measurements at different temperatures and under dark and illuminated conditions. The two samples were distinguished by different durations of the nitric-phosphoric (NP) etching process applied before back contact deposition. The cell with a short etching time (30 s) shows a strong roll over in the forward bias region, and the cell with the surface that was etched for a longer time (3 min) showed a very strong decrease of the roll-over and a better fill factor. The results show that the etching process dramatically changes the CV characteristics, the resulting CdTe effective doping concentration and that this change can be correlated to different equivalent circuits obtained by the fitting of the impedance spectra of the two samples. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.
| Item Type: | Article in conference proceedings or Presentation at a conference (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CV-measurements,CdTe,Equivalent circuit,Etching,Impedance spectroscopy,Roll over |
| Subjects: | Engineering > Electronic & electrical engineering |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento ambiente costruzioni e design > Istituto sostenibilità applicata all'ambiente costruito |
| Depositing User: | Gabi Friesen |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Aug 2018 05:57 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2018 05:57 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/9707 |
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