We report on a sodium fluoride (NaF) thickness variation study for the H 2 Se batch furnace selenization of sputtered Cu(In,Ga) films in a wide range of Cu(In,Ga) film compositions to form Cu(In,Ga)Se 2 (CIGSe) films and solar cells. Literature review indicates lack of consensus on the mechanisms involved in Na altering CIGSe film properties. In this work, for sputtered and batch‐selenized CIGSe, NaF addition results in reduced gallium content and an increase in grain size for the top portion of the CIGSe film, as observed by scanning electron microscopy and secondary ion mass spectrometry. The addition of up to 20 nm of NaF resulted in an improvement in all relevant device parameters: open‐circuit voltage, short‐circuit current, and fill factor. The best results were found for 15 nm NaF addition, resulting in solar cells with 16.0% active‐area efficiency (without anti‐reflective coating) at open‐circuit voltage ( V OC ) of 674 mV. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. For sputtered Cu(In,Ga) followed by H 2 Se batch selenization, NaF addition results in reduced gallium content and an increase in grain size for the top portion of the CIGSe film. The addition of up to 20 nm of NaF resulted in an improvement in all relevant device parameters. The best results were found for 15 nm NaF addition, resulting in solar cells with 16.0% efficiency at open‐circuit voltage ( V OC ) of 674 mV. A detailed analysis is provided.


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    Title :

    Combinatorial study of NaF addition in CIGSe films for high efficiency solar cells



    Published in:

    Progress in photovoltaics ; 23 , 3 ; 269-280


    Publication date :

    2015




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    BKL:    53.36 Energiedirektumwandler, elektrische Energiespeicher



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