The effect of post-deposition processing on photovoltaic performance of ternary copper chalcogenide solar cell

• Grant number: 14/12166-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2014
• End date: August 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Condensed Matter Physics
• Principal Investigator: Lucia Helena Mascaro Sales
• Grantee: Francisco Willian de Souza Lucas
• Supervisor: Andriy Zakutayev
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/10947-2 - Preparation and characterization of MBSe thin films (M = Ag or Cu; B = In, Ga, Sb or Tl; and S = S or Se) for application in photovoltaic cells, BP.DR

Abstract

This project of research internship abroad proposes to study the effect of post-deposition processing on photovoltaic performance of ternary copper chalcogenide solar cell, in order to obtain quality films suitable as an absorber layer in solar cells. The post-deposition effects will be characterized by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL), Raman spectroscopy, Capacitance techniques, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy (DLTS), Hall effect, current-voltage (J-V), T-dependent J-V and External Quantum Efficiency (EQE) measurements. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DE SOUZA LUCAS, FRANCISCO WILLIAN; ZAKUTAYEV, ANDRIY. Research Update: Emerging chalcostibite absorbers for thin-film solar cells. APL Materials, v. 6, n. 8, AUG 2018. (14/12166-3, 16/10513-3)

MOKURALA, KRISHNAIAH; BARANOWSKI, LAURYN L.; DE SOUZA LUCAS, FRANCISCO W.; SIOL, SEBASTIAN; VAN HEST, MAIKEL F. A. M.; MALLICK, SUDHANSHU; BHARGAVA, PARAG; ZAKUTAYEV, ANDRIY. Combinatorial Chemical Bath Deposition of CdS Contacts for Chalcogenide Photovoltaics. ACS COMBINATORIAL SCIENCE, v. 18, n. 9, p. 583-589, SEP 2016. (14/12166-3)

DE SOUZA LUCAS, FRANCISCO WILLIAN; WELCH, ADAM W.; BARANOWSKI, LAURYN L.; DIPPO, PATRICIA C.; HEMPEL, HANNES; UNOLD, THOMAS; EICHBERGER, RAINER; BLANK, BEATRIX; RAU, UWE; MASCARO, LUCIA H.; et al. Effects of Thermochemical Treatment on CuSbS2 Photovoltaic Absorber Quality and Solar Cell Reproducibility. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, v. 120, n. 33, p. 18377-18385, AUG 25 2016. (14/12166-3)

DE SOUZA LUCAS, FRANCISCO WILLIAN; PENG, HAOWEI; JOHNSTON, STEVE; DIPPO, PATRICIA C.; LANY, STEPHAN; MASCARO, LUCIA H.; ZAKUTAYEV, ANDRIY. Characterization of defects in copper antimony disulfide. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, v. 5, n. 41, p. 21986-21993, NOV 7 2017. (14/12166-3, 16/10513-3)