Recovery mechanisms in aged kesterite solar cells

Stephen Campbell; Martial Duchamp; Bethan Ford; Michael Jones; Linh Lan Nguyen; Matthew Naylor; Xinya Xu; Pietro Maiello; Guillaume Zoppi; Vincent Barrioz; Neil Beattie; Yongtao Qu

doi:10.1021/acsaem.1c03247

Recovery mechanisms in aged kesterite solar cells

Stephen Campbell, Martial Duchamp, Bethan Ford, Michael Jones, Linh Lan Nguyen, Matthew Naylor, Xinya Xu, Pietro Maiello, Guillaume Zoppi, Vincent Barrioz, Neil Beattie^*, Yongtao Qu^*

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Abstract

For successful long-term deployment and operation of kesterites Cu2ZnSn(SxSe1−x)4 (CZTSSe) as light absorber materials for photovoltaics, device stability and recovery in kesterite solar cells are investigated. A low temperature heat treatment is applied to overcome the poor charge extraction that developed in the natural aging process. It is suggested that defect states at aged CZTSSe/CdS heterojunctions were reduced while apparent doping density in the CZTSSe absorber increased due to Cd/Zn inter-diffusion at the heterojunction during the annealing process. In situ annealing experiments in a transmission electron microscope were used to investigate the elemental diffusion at the CZTSSe/CdS heterojunction. This study reveals the critical role of heat treatment to enhance the absorber/Mo back contact, improve the quality of the absorber/buffer heterojunction and recover the device performance in aged kesterite thin film solar cells.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5404-5414
Number of pages	11
Journal	ACS Applied Energy Materials
Volume	5
Issue number	5
Early online date	8 Mar 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c03247
Publication status	Published - 23 May 2022

Keywords

SCAPS
elemental diffusion
heat treatment
in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
kesterite
photovoltaics

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Recovery mechanisms in aged kesterite solar cells

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