Development of Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition for Expedited Device Optimization in CdTe/CdS Thin-Film Solar Cells
dc.contributor.author | Kadhim, Ali Saber | |
dc.contributor.author | Harrison, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Meeth, Jake | |
dc.contributor.author | Al-mebir, Alaa Ayad Khedhair | |
dc.contributor.author | Zeng, Guanggen | |
dc.contributor.author | Wu, Judy Z. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-22T18:21:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-22T18:21:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-11-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ali Kadhim, Paul Harrison, Jake Meeth, Alaa Al-Mebir, Guanggen Zeng, and Judy Wu, “Development of Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition for Expedited Device Optimization in CdTe/CdS Thin-Film Solar Cells,” International Journal of Optics, vol. 2016, Article ID 1696848, 7 pages, 2016. doi:10.1155/2016/1696848 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25003 | |
dc.description.abstract | A combinatorial pulsed laser deposition system was developed by integrating a computer controlled scanning sample stage in order to rapidly screen processing conditions relevant to CdTe/CdS thin-film solar cells. Using this system, the thickness of the CdTe absorber layer is varied across a single sample from 1.5 μm to 0.75 μm. The effects of thickness on CdTe grain morphology, crystal orientation, and cell efficiency were investigated with respect to different postprocessing conditions. It is shown that the thinner CdTe layer of 0.75 μm obtained the best power conversion efficiency up to 5.3%. The results of this work shows the importance that CdTe grain size/morphology relative to CdTe thickness has on device performance and quantitatively exhibits what those values should be to obtain efficient thin-film CdTe/CdS solar cells fabricated with pulsed laser deposition. Further development of this combinatorial approach could enable high-throughput exploration and optimization of CdTe/CdS solar cells. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Hindawi Publishing Corporation | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2016 Ali Kadhim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.title | Development of Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition for Expedited Device Optimization in CdTe/CdS Thin-Film Solar Cells | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Kadhim, Ali | |
kusw.kuauthor | Harrison, Paul | |
kusw.kuauthor | Meeth, Jake | |
kusw.kuauthor | Al-Mebir, Alaa | |
kusw.kuauthor | Zeng, Guanggen | |
kusw.kuauthor | Wu, Judy | |
kusw.kudepartment | Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
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dc.identifier.doi | 10.1155/2016/1696848 | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9255-0891 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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