Multi-modal characterization of kesterite thin-film solar cells: experimental results and numerical interpretation

Abdellatif Saadaldin; Azat M. Slyamov; Michael E. Stuckelberger; Peter S. Jørgensen; Christian Rein; Mariana Mar Lucas; Tiago Ramos; Angel Rodriguez-Fernandez; Dominique Bernard; Jens W. Andreasen

doi:10.1039/d2fd00044j

Multi-modal characterization of kesterite thin-film solar cells: experimental results and numerical interpretation

Abdellatif Saadaldin
, Azat M. Slyamov
, Michael E. Stuckelberger^*
, Peter S. Jørgensen
, Christian Rein
, Mariana Mar Lucas
, Tiago Ramos
, Angel Rodriguez-Fernandez
, Dominique Bernard
, Jens W. Andreasen

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Energy Conversion and Storage

Université de Bordeaux
German Electron Synchrotron
Lund University

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We report a multi-modal study of the electrical, chemical and structural properties of a kesterite thin-film solar cell by combining the spatially-resolved X-ray beam induced current and fluorescence imaging techniques for the evaluation of a fully functional device on a cross-section. The data allowed the correlation of the chemical composition, defects at interfaces and inhomogeneous deposition of the layers with the local charge-collection efficiency of the device. We support our observations with Monte Carlo simulations of high-energy X-ray interactions with the semiconductor device, and finite-volume modeling of the charge-collection efficiency.

Original language	English
Journal	Faraday Discussions
Volume	239
Pages (from-to)	160-179
Number of pages	20
ISSN	1359-6640
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/d2fd00044j
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Multi-modal characterization of kesterite thin-film solar cells: experimental results and numerical interpretation

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