✦ LIBER ✦
98/03943 A simple technology to improve crystalline-silicon solar cell efficiency
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Weight
- 209 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0140-6701
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✦ Synopsis
Thin-film ZnO CdS/Cu(In,Ga)Sez solar cells, characterized by being inexpensive, highly efficient and having a large area, have been developed. Recent laboratory-scale research have shown that polycrystalline thin-film cells of this general composition deposited onto inexpensive soda-lime glass substrates have solar-to-electric conversion efficiencies exceeding 17%. Inexpensive, non-vacuum deposition technology which is inherently scaleable to large-area deposition is discussed here.