A fundamental study of the effects of grain boundaries on performance of poly-crystalline thin film CdTe solar cells

Tadas Paulauskas; Cyrus Sun; Fatih Sen; Chris Buurma; Edward Barnard; Sivananthan Sivalingham; Maria Chan; Moon Kim; Robert Klie

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355937

A fundamental study of the effects of grain boundaries on performance of poly-crystalline thin film CdTe solar cells

Tadas Paulauskas, Cyrus Sun, Fatih Sen, Chris Buurma, Edward Barnard, Sivananthan Sivalingham, Maria Chan, Moon Kim, Robert Klie

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Abstract

Poly-crystalline CdTe-based thin film photovoltaic devices have shown a great potential and are commercially used for large-scale energy conversion applications. Despite this success conversion efficiency of CdTe has achieved very minor improvements over the last 20 years. To overcome this stagnation and further drive cost-per-watt of the modules, better atomic-scale understanding of native dislocation structures and grain boundaries is needed. In this collaborative study we systematically investigate effects of grain boundaries using ultra-high-vacuum bonded CdTe bi-crystals with pre-defined misorientation angles.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479979448
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355937
State	Published - Dec 14 2015
Event	42nd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015 - New Orleans, United States Duration: Jun 14 2015 → Jun 19 2015

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Name	2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015

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Other	42nd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Orleans
Period	6/14/15 → 6/19/15

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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Paulauskas, T., Sun, C., Sen, F., Buurma, C., Barnard, E., Sivalingham, S., Chan, M., Kim, M., & Klie, R. (2015). A fundamental study of the effects of grain boundaries on performance of poly-crystalline thin film CdTe solar cells. In 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015 Article 7355937 (2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355937

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A fundamental study of the effects of grain boundaries on performance of poly-crystalline thin film CdTe solar cells. / Paulauskas, Tadas; Sun, Cyrus; Sen, Fatih et al.
2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. 7355937 (2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015).

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A fundamental study of the effects of grain boundaries on performance of poly-crystalline thin film CdTe solar cells

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