Articles tagged "CIGS"

The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Heterointerfaces TEM characterization of buffer layers in KF treated CIGS solar cells. Towards a new buffer layer?
Eric Gautron (1), Thomas Lepetit (1), Sylvie Harel (1), Ludovic Arzel (1), Lionel Assmann (1), Agathe Frelon (1), R-Ribeiro Andrade (2), Sascha Sadewasser (2), Thierry Douillard (3), Thierry Epicier (3), Nicolas Barreau (1)
1. Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN), UMR6502 CNRS, Nantes, France 2. International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, INL, Braga, Portugal 3. Mateis, University of Lyon, INSA de Lyon, UMR5510 CNRS, Villeurbanne, France
Cu(In,Ga)Se2–based (CIGS) solar cells are thin film devices achieving nowadays the highest conversion efficiency (22.3% at the laboratory scale [1]), surpassing any other thin-film or…
The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Analysis of nanoscale band gap fluctuations in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells by VEELS
Debora Keller (1, 2), Stephan Buecheler (1), Patrick Reinhard (1), Fabian Pianezzi (1), Marta D. Rossell (2), Darius Pohl (3), Alexander Surrey (3), Bernd Rellinghaus (3), Fredrik Hage (4), Quentin Ramasse (4), Rolf Erni (2), Ayodhya N. Tiwari (1)
1. Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Suisse 2. Electron Microscopy Center, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Suisse 3. Institute for Metallic Materials, IFW Dresden, Dresden, Allemagne 4. SuperSTEM Laboratory, STFC Daresbury Campus, Daresbury , Royaume Uni
Thin film solar cells based on CuInGaSe2 (CIGS) absorber layers have demonstrated conversion efficiencies of more than 22% and they manifest a promising potential for the…
The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Combining TEM and APT for a better understanding of super high efficiency Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film solar cells
Celia Castro (1), Mohit Raghuwanshi (1), Philippe Pareige (1), Sébastien Duguay (1), Emmanuel Cadel (1), Wolfram Witte (2), Philip Jackson (2), Dimitrios Hariskos (2), Friedrich Kessler (2), Stephan Buecheler (3), Romain Carron (3), Enrico Avancini (3), Benjamin Bissig (3), Ayodhya Tiwari (3)
1. Groupe de Physique des Matériaux - UMR CNRS 6634, Université de Rouen Normandie, Saint Etienne du Rouvray, France 2. Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg , ZSW, Stuttgart, Allemagne 3. EMPA, Dübendorf, Suisse
The Sharc25 EU H2020 project aim is to push the efficiency of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) thin film solar cells to their maximum theoretical limit. Sharc25 consists…