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CdTe thin film solar cells : present status and future perspectives  (2011)

Authors:
Romeo, Alessandro
Title:
CdTe thin film solar cells : present status and future perspectives
Year:
2011
Type of item:
Contributo in atti di convegno
Tipologia ANVUR:
Contributo in Atti di convegno
Language:
Inglese
Format:
A Stampa
Congresso:
International Conference on Light Optics: Phenomena, Materials, Devices, and Characterization, OPTICS 2011
Place:
Calicut, Kerala, India
Period:
23-25 Maggio
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics
ISBN:
9780735409606
Page numbers:
33-37
Keyword:
CdTe;; thin film;; solar cells
Short description of contents:
The CdTe thin film solar cells have reached enough technological maturity to be one of the most successful photovoltaic technologies in the market. From the early stage of research, in the eighties, up to now, CdTe solar cells have provided a constant increase in efficiency together with a more effective fabrication process that reduces the amount of material and increases the industrial scalability, due to the large variety of the fabrication processes and to the robustness of the material.In the last 10 years, different key issues from the recrystallization/activation treatment (enhancing CdTe grain size and passivating the grain boundaries) to the back contact stability (incapsulating copper into a stable compound) have been deeply studied and engineered. With these advances the CdTe photovoltaic technology has now the lowest cost per Watt available, due to the low amount of material involved, the low energies used in the fabrication process and the fast all-in-line production with monolithical integration of the solar cells. In this paper, recent technologies for CdTe thin film solar cell fabrication are shown, low temperature and high temperature deposition processes in the laboratory and on the industrial scale, together with the monolithical integration, together with some environmental considerations are described.
Web page:
http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/1391/33/1
Product ID:
63421
Handle IRIS:
11562/367603
Deposited On:
July 11, 2012
Last Modified:
November 9, 2022
Bibliographic citation:
Romeo, Alessandro, CdTe thin film solar cells : present status and future perspectives  in AIP Conference ProceedingsAmerican Institute of PhysicsProceedings of "International Conference on Light Optics: Phenomena, Materials, Devices, and Characterization, OPTICS 2011" , Calicut, Kerala, India , 23-25 Maggio , 2011pp. 33-37

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