Objective
Thin film solar cells based on chalcopyrite compound semiconductors exhibit efficiencies exceeding 16% as demonstrated in the laboratories of the EUROCIS II consortium. Upscaling of the processes, development of new low cost deposition techniques and fundamental research on material properties are the present tasks of the research within the EUROCIS II Program. Supplementary to these researchgoals fundamental investigations aiming at a profound understanding of the defect structure of chalcopyrites and of the recombination mechanisms in thin films and heterojunctions are intended by the new participants from Eastern Europe. High quality CuInSe2 and solid solutions with CuGaSe2 and CuInS2 will be produced by the "monograin" technique and by Bridgman growth of single crystals. This material serves as an input for low temperature photoluminescence, high temperature Hall, photoconductivity and photoconductivity decay measurements. The results of these investigations will be compared to junction analysis, i.e. photocapacitance and DLTS. The overall goal is the identification of recombination centers in thin films and heterojunctions by combined measurement techniques. In a further Step the defect chemistry and recombination centers of single crystals will be compared to thin films prepared by different deposition techniques in order to establish a deposition technique for thin films leading to a minimized defect concentration. This should lead to a further improvement of the solar cell efficiency of thin film devices based on chalcopyrite semiconductors.
Additionally low cost deposition techniques such as spray pyrolysis and electrodeposition will be developed in the laboratories of the participants from Eastern Europe.
A major part in the collaboration of the EUROCIS II consortium with the new participants from Eastern Europe is the exchange of experience and a technology transfer between the single partners which will occur during short visits and joined seminars.
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3001 Heverlee
Belgium
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