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High efficiency nanoparticle solution-processed Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 solar cells

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posted on 2017-10-23, 13:58 authored by Alex Eeles, Panagiota Arnou, Jake BowersJake Bowers, Michael WallsMichael Walls, Stephen Whitelegg, Paul Kirkham, Cary Allen, Stuart Stubbs, Zugang Liu, Ombretta Masala, Christopher Newman, Nigel Pickett
Thin film Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2-based (generally referred to as CIGS) solar cells represent a promising alternative to conventional crystalline silicon solar cells due to their high efficiencies, reduced cost and better material utilisation. In recent years it has been demonstrated that it is possible to form thin films by annealing nanoparticulate material such that the nanoparticles coalesce to form large grained thin films. In this paper, we present a 13.8 % efficient CIGS solar cell derived from printed nanoparticle inks. The approach was successfully extended to fabricate monolithic devices on larger substrates. These results demonstrate that low-cost, non-vacuum printing of CIGS nanoparticles has great potential to achieve high efficiencies and reduce the performance gap with the more traditional vacuum co-evaporation and sputtering techniques.

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The Nanoco Technologies authors are grateful for financial support from Innovate UK through an Energy Catalyst grant (no. 102235). The Loughborough University authors are grateful for associated funding by EPSRC through grant EP/N508457/1.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volume

8

Issue

1

Pages

288-292

Citation

EELES. A. ...et al., 2018. High efficiency nanoparticle solution-processed Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 solar cells. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 8(1), pp. 288-292.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Acceptance date

2017-10-06

Publication date

2017-10-31

Copyright date

2018

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by IEEE under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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2156-3381

Language

  • en

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