Photovoltaic Cell Containing a Semiconductor Photovoltaically Active Material

• Main Author: STERZEL HANS-JOSEF
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 10.07.2008
• Subjects: APPARATUS THEREFOR; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; CHEMISTRY; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATIONOR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY IONIMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROFORMING; ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION INGENERAL; METALLURGY; PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTIONOF COATINGS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THESURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION

The invention relates to a photovoltaic cell and to a process for producing a photovoltaic cell comprising a photovoltaically active semiconductor material of the formula (I) or (II): ZnTe (I) Zn1-xMnxTe (II) where x is from 0.01 to 0.7, wherein the photovoltaically active semiconductor material comprises a metal halide comprising a metal selected from the group consisting of germanium, tin, antimony, bismuth and copper and a halogen selected from the group consisting of fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine