Effects of different CdCl2 annealing methods on the performance of CdS/CdTe polycrystalline thin film solar cells
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- 作者：GuangGen Zeng ; JingQuan Zhang ; Bing Li ; Wei Li…
- 关键词：dip ; coating ; annealing ; CdTe thin film ; solar cells
- 刊名：SCIENCE CHINA Technological Sciences
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：May 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：58
- 期：5
- 页码：876-880
- 全文大小：518 KB
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JingQuan Zhang (1)
Bing Li (1)
Wei Li (1)
LiLi Wu (1)
WenWu Wang (1)
LiangHuan Feng (1)
1. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China - 刊物类别：Engineering
- 刊物主题：Chinese Library of Science
Engineering, general - 出版者：Science China Press, co-published with Springer
- ISSN：1869-1900
文摘
In this paper, the effects of different CdCl2 annealing methods, including vapor annealing and dip-coating annealing, on the performance of CdS/CdTe polycrystalline thin-film solar cells are studied. After annealing, the samples are lightly etched with 1% bromine in methanol to remove surface oxides. Both annealing methods give CdTe polycrystalline thin films with good crystallinity and complete structure. For solar cells containing the annealed CdTe films, cell efficiency first increases and then decreases as the concentration of CdCl2 solution used for dip-coating annealing increases, and the optimized CdCl2 concentration is 12%. The uniformity of the performance of all cells is analyzed by calculating the relative standard deviation for each parameter. The uniformity of cell performance can be improved dramatically by dip-coating annealing instead of vapor annealing. Most notably, an appropriate concentration of CdCl2 (12%) acts as a protective layer that is conducive to realizing uniform high-performance CdS/CdTe solar cells. According to the location of depletion regions, the CdTe films treated by dip-coating annealing show a relatively low doping concentration, except for the sample treated with a CdCl2 concentration of 6%, which is consistent with the changes of short-circuit current density of the cells. It is believed that these results can be applied to the large-scale production of CdTe polycrystalline thin-film solar cells.