Impact of CdTe thin film thickness in ZnxCd1?xS/CdTe solar cell by RF sputtering
Atomic force microscopy; Cadmium sulfide; Cadmium sulfide solar cells; Cadmium telluride; Crystallinity; Efficiency; Film thickness; Glass; II-VI semiconductors; Lime; Magnetron sputtering; Optical properties; Scanning electron microscopy; Semiconductor alloys; Silver compounds; Thin film solar cell...
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my.uniten.dspace-247602023-05-29T15:26:46Z Impact of CdTe thin film thickness in ZnxCd1?xS/CdTe solar cell by RF sputtering Hossain M.S. Rahman K.S. Karim M.R. Aijaz M.O. Dar M.A. Shar M.A. Misran H. Amin N. 57212814508 56348138800 56820318000 57188713075 8586960200 56192464300 6506899840 7102424614 Atomic force microscopy; Cadmium sulfide; Cadmium sulfide solar cells; Cadmium telluride; Crystallinity; Efficiency; Film thickness; Glass; II-VI semiconductors; Lime; Magnetron sputtering; Optical properties; Scanning electron microscopy; Semiconductor alloys; Silver compounds; Thin film solar cells; Uranium metallography; Vanadium metallography; X ray diffraction; Zinc; Zinc metallography; Zinc sulfide; CdTe; Cell configurations; Optimum deposition; rf-Magnetron sputtering; Rf-sputtering; Structural and optical characterizations; Window layer; Zinc blend structure; Thin films; cadmium; film; fuel cell; scanning electron microscopy; solar power; tellurium; X-ray diffraction; zinc This paper presents the impact of thickness of RF sputtered CdTe thin film as an absorber layer through structural and optical characterization in ZnxCd1?xS/CdTe solar cells at lower concentration of zinc (Zn). The crystallographic, morphological and optical properties of CdTe thin film fabricated on top of bare soda-lime glass were elucidated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and ultraviolet (UV) spectrophotometer. XRD spectra shows that crystallinity increases in thicker samples and the CdTe (1 1 1) diffraction peak intensity centered at 23.825� increases with the increase of film thickness confirming the zinc blend structure of CdTe thin film. The window layer ZnxCd1?xS was fabricated with optimum deposition conditions by co-sputtering of ZnS and CdS. The complete cell was fabricated by RF magnetron sputtering with the cell configuration of glass/FTO/ZnxCd1?xS/ZnTe/Ag. With the increasing thicknesses of CdTe the cell efficiency increases with the highest efficiency of 8.79% for 3.5 ?m of CdTe. This paves the way of novel window of ZnCdTe for smoothening the junction mismatches in hetero-junction CdTe thin film solar cells. � 2019 Elsevier Ltd Final 2023-05-29T07:26:46Z 2023-05-29T07:26:46Z 2019 Article 10.1016/j.solener.2019.01.019 2-s2.0-85060354106 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85060354106&doi=10.1016%2fj.solener.2019.01.019&partnerID=40&md5=722529a427b4c83982bfdc91265dc8cc https://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/24760 180 559 566 Elsevier Ltd Scopus |
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Atomic force microscopy; Cadmium sulfide; Cadmium sulfide solar cells; Cadmium telluride; Crystallinity; Efficiency; Film thickness; Glass; II-VI semiconductors; Lime; Magnetron sputtering; Optical properties; Scanning electron microscopy; Semiconductor alloys; Silver compounds; Thin film solar cells; Uranium metallography; Vanadium metallography; X ray diffraction; Zinc; Zinc metallography; Zinc sulfide; CdTe; Cell configurations; Optimum deposition; rf-Magnetron sputtering; Rf-sputtering; Structural and optical characterizations; Window layer; Zinc blend structure; Thin films; cadmium; film; fuel cell; scanning electron microscopy; solar power; tellurium; X-ray diffraction; zinc |
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Impact of CdTe thin film thickness in ZnxCd1?xS/CdTe solar cell by RF sputtering |
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Impact of CdTe thin film thickness in ZnxCd1?xS/CdTe solar cell by RF sputtering |
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Impact of CdTe thin film thickness in ZnxCd1?xS/CdTe solar cell by RF sputtering |
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Impact of CdTe thin film thickness in ZnxCd1?xS/CdTe solar cell by RF sputtering |
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Impact of CdTe thin film thickness in ZnxCd1?xS/CdTe solar cell by RF sputtering |
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impact of cdte thin film thickness in znxcd1?xs/cdte solar cell by rf sputtering |
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