Effect of post annealing thermal heating on Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells processed by sputtering technique

In this work, a detailed study of the effect of thermal treatment (hot plate) on a Mo/CZTS/CdS/i-ZnO/ITO solar cell was carried out, which promotes the diffusion of the Cd contained in the window layer of CdS towards the absorber layer of CZTS. The thermal treatment of the Mo/CZTS/CdS/i-ZnO/ITO sola...

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Autores: Sánchez, M.F., Sánchez, T.G., Courel Piedrahita, Maykel, Reyes Vallejo, O, Sánchez, Yudania, Saucedo Silva, Edgardo Ademar|||0000-0003-2123-6162, Sebastian, P.J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/382735
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/382735
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2022.04.002
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Solar energy
Solar panels
Energia solar
Panells solars
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Energies
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Sumario:In this work, a detailed study of the effect of thermal treatment (hot plate) on a Mo/CZTS/CdS/i-ZnO/ITO solar cell was carried out, which promotes the diffusion of the Cd contained in the window layer of CdS towards the absorber layer of CZTS. The thermal treatment of the Mo/CZTS/CdS/i-ZnO/ITO solar cell was carried out at temperatures ranging from 100 °C to 400 °C and times varying from 3 to 15 min in air atmosphere. The CZTS was grown from deposits of metallic precursors (Cu/Sn/Cu/Zn) by sputtering and annealing at two ramps: 200° C for 45 min with an argon flow of 1 mbar and 550 °C for 5 min at 1 bar in an atmosphere of S + Sn. For the complete solar cells with a hotplate treatment of 280 °C for 6 min an increase of 2.7% to 5.2% of conversion efficiency was observed compared to the solar cell without hotplate treatment. The band gap CZTS decreased from 1.56 to 1.43 eV and Jsc increased from 12.0 mA/cm2 to 15.4 mA/cm2.