Evaluation of CdS nanostructures for application to low environmental-load CdS/CdTe solar cells

• Published in: 3rd World Conference onPhotovoltaic Energy Conversion, 2003. Proceedings of Vol. 1; pp. 511 - 514 Vol.1
• Main Authors: Toyama, T., Oda, H., Matsune, K., Okamoto, H.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2003
• Subjects: Annealing; Crystallization; Doping; Energy conversion; Fabrication; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Solar power generation; Temperature; Transistors

The low "environmental-load" CdS/CdTe solar cells for reducing consumption of Cd compounds have been investigated employing the CdS layers fabricated at various substrate temperatures, T/sub CdS/. The nanostructure of CdS crystallites made at different T/sub CdS/ are compared to the crysta...