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Effect of CdTe Back Surface Field on the Efficiency Enhancement of a CGS Based Thin Film Solar Cell

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Numerical analysis of the proposed solar cell is based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) and copper gallium sulfide (CuGaS2), also known as CGS, is proposed in this research work. Performance of a CdTe/CGS/CdS/ZnO cell is analyzed in Solar Cell Capacitance Simulator (SCAPS) software, by changing the physical parameters like doping density of acceptor, doping density of donor, absorber thickness and buffer thickness. The cell structure is in the same order as the CGS/CdS/ZnO with CdTe used for the back surface field layer. Power conversion efficiency of the CGS/CdS/ZnO solar cell without CdTe is 10.578% (with FF = 83.70%, Voc = 0.82 V, Jsc = 15.40 mA/cm2) and conversion efficiency of CdTe/CGS/CdS/ZnO is 28.20% (with FF = 77.66%, Voc = 1.22 V, Jsc = 29.63 mA/cm3). The overall investigation and simulation results from the modeling of a proposed device in SCAPS is very useful for the understanding of the fundamentals of photovoltaic devices and gives feedback to engineers and designers for the fabrication of CdTe/CGS based solar cells.

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  1. ETS de Ingeniería de Diseño, Departament de Física Aplicada, Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Camí de Vera, Valencia, Spain

    Yousaf Hameed Khattak, Faisal Baig & Bernabé Marí

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Yousaf Hameed Khattak, Faisal Baig, Syed Rizwan Gillani & Tanveer Ahmed

  3. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Saira Beg

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Khattak, Y.H., Baig, F., Marí, B. et al. Effect of CdTe Back Surface Field on the Efficiency Enhancement of a CGS Based Thin Film Solar Cell. J. Electron. Mater. 47, 5183–5190 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-018-6405-4

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