Nanostructures of CdS thin films prepared by various technologies for thin film solar cells

Junfeng Han; Yu Jian; Yuan He; Yunong Liu; Xiaolu Xiong; Limei Cha; V. Krishnakumar; H. J. Schimper

doi:10.1016/j.matlet.2016.04.111

Nanostructures of CdS thin films prepared by various technologies for thin film solar cells

Junfeng Han^*, Yu Jian, Yuan He, Yunong Liu, Xiaolu Xiong, Limei Cha, V. Krishnakumar, H. J. Schimper

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In this work, we reported TEM observations of several CdS thin films prepared by close space submission, sputtering, chemical bath deposition and electronic deposition technologies. The CdS layers prepared by close space submission and sputtering methods had larger grains (50-80 nm), while the CdS layers deposited by chemical bath had very small grains with the size of 5-10 nm. Electro deposited CdS yielded more like an epitaxial film. The optical and chemical properties showed good quality of CdS films prepared by all methods. In this work we proposed a suitable CdS multilayer structure to use it as a window layer in thin film solar cells.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5-8
Number of pages	4
Journal	Materials Letters
Volume	177
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2016.04.111
State	Published - 15 Aug 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

CBD
CSS
CdS solar cells
Electrodeposition
Sputtering
Thin films

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