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Thin-Film Solar Cells Based on the Polycrystalline Compound Semiconductors CIS and CdTe

Author(s) -

Michael Powalla,

Dieter Bonnet

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

advances in optoelectronics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.118

H-Index - 21

eISSN - 1687-5648

pISSN - 1687-563X

DOI - 10.1155/2007/97545

Subject(s) - cadmium telluride photovoltaics , wafer , algorithm , polycrystalline silicon , materials science , semiconductor , thin film , computer science , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , layer (electronics) , thin film transistor

Thin-film photovoltaic modules based on Cu-In-Ga-Se-S (CIS) and CdTe are already being produced with high-quality and solar conversion efficiencies of around 10%, with values up to14% expected in the near future. The integrated interconnection of single cells into large-areamodules of 0.6×1.2m2 enables low-cost mass production, so that thin-film modules will soon beable to compete with conventional silicon-wafer-based modules. This contribution provides anoverview of the basic technologies for CdTe and CIS modules, the research and development (R&D) issues,production technology and capacities, the module performance in long-term outdoor testing, and their usein installations

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