Presented at the 26th IEEE PVSC Conference Sept. 30 - Oct. 3, 1997 Aneheim, CA, USA

Determining the Voltage Dependence of the Light Generated Current in CuInSe2 - Based Solar Cells Using I-V Measurements Made at Different Light Intensities

J. E. Phillips, J. Titus and D. Hofmann
Institute of Energy Conversion
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716-3820 USA
jep@udel.edu

ABSTRACT

As the bandgap of CuInSe2 is increased by alloying with Ga or S, the loss in efficiency due to the decrease of light generated current with increasing voltage becomes important. The standard technique of quantifying this loss is to analyze spectral response measurements made as a function of applied voltage. Instead, it is shown how to determine the voltage dependence of the light generated current by an analysis of the current-voltage (I-V) measurements made at two different light intensities. By adding an I-V measurement at a third light intensity one can also determine if the analysis technique is valid.

26th IEEE Paper.pdf

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