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| author | Hu, Yucheng Washbrook, Ece Oli, Arivazhagan Valluvar Griesi, Andrea Ivanov, Yurii P. Pelling, Mariam Fairclough, Simon M. Kaur, Kulwinder Melchiorre, Michele Hultqvist, Adam Törndahl, Tobias Hempel, Wolfram Witte, Wolfram Divitini, Giorgio Siebentritt, Susanne Oliver, Rachel A. Kusch, Gunnar |
| author_facet | Hu, Yucheng Washbrook, Ece Oli, Arivazhagan Valluvar Griesi, Andrea Ivanov, Yurii P. Pelling, Mariam Fairclough, Simon M. Kaur, Kulwinder Melchiorre, Michele Hultqvist, Adam Törndahl, Tobias Hempel, Wolfram Witte, Wolfram Divitini, Giorgio Siebentritt, Susanne Oliver, Rachel A. Kusch, Gunnar |
| contents | Sulfide chalcopyrite Cu(In,Ga)S2 (CIGS) is a wide bandgap semiconductor suitable for the top cell of a tandem solar device. Here we demonstrate significant improvements in absorber quality by alloying with Ag to form (Ag,Cu)(In,Ga)S2 (ACIGS) absorbers. We report the Ag alloying effect on compositional, structural, and optoelectronic properties of absorbers. We demonstrate suppressed bulk recombination and improved carrier lifetime in ACIGS, as a result of improved grain size, porosity reduction and defect passivation. We also show that Ag alloying flattens the Ga gradient. Consideration of this impact of Ag will be necessary in future engineering of the Ga profile to maximize charge carrier collection and avoid interface recombination. Exploiting the beneficial effects of Ag alloying, we report a wide bandgap (1.58 eV) ACIGS solar cell with a high power conversion efficiency of 15.5% and a large open-circuit voltage (VOC) of 948 mV, improving on the reference pure CIGS solar cell, with an 11.2% efficiency and an 821 mV VOC. Ag alloying is a useful route to further increase the efficiency of CIGS solar cells and future tandem devices. |
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| spellingShingle | Silver Alloyed Wide Bandgap (Ag,Cu)(In,Ga)S2 Thin Film Solar Cells With 15.5% Efficiency Hu, Yucheng Washbrook, Ece Oli, Arivazhagan Valluvar Griesi, Andrea Ivanov, Yurii P. Pelling, Mariam Fairclough, Simon M. Kaur, Kulwinder Melchiorre, Michele Hultqvist, Adam Törndahl, Tobias Hempel, Wolfram Witte, Wolfram Divitini, Giorgio Siebentritt, Susanne Oliver, Rachel A. Kusch, Gunnar Materials Science Sulfide chalcopyrite Cu(In,Ga)S2 (CIGS) is a wide bandgap semiconductor suitable for the top cell of a tandem solar device. Here we demonstrate significant improvements in absorber quality by alloying with Ag to form (Ag,Cu)(In,Ga)S2 (ACIGS) absorbers. We report the Ag alloying effect on compositional, structural, and optoelectronic properties of absorbers. We demonstrate suppressed bulk recombination and improved carrier lifetime in ACIGS, as a result of improved grain size, porosity reduction and defect passivation. We also show that Ag alloying flattens the Ga gradient. Consideration of this impact of Ag will be necessary in future engineering of the Ga profile to maximize charge carrier collection and avoid interface recombination. Exploiting the beneficial effects of Ag alloying, we report a wide bandgap (1.58 eV) ACIGS solar cell with a high power conversion efficiency of 15.5% and a large open-circuit voltage (VOC) of 948 mV, improving on the reference pure CIGS solar cell, with an 11.2% efficiency and an 821 mV VOC. Ag alloying is a useful route to further increase the efficiency of CIGS solar cells and future tandem devices. |
| title | Silver Alloyed Wide Bandgap (Ag,Cu)(In,Ga)S2 Thin Film Solar Cells With 15.5% Efficiency |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01459 |