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Xinliang Chen, Congbo Yan, Xinhua Geng, Dekun Zhang, Changchun Wei, Ying Zhao, Xiaodan Zhang. Modified textured surface MOCVD-ZnO:B transparent conductive layers for thin-film solar cells[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2014, 35(4): 043002. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/35/4/043002
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X L Chen, C B Yan, X H Geng, D K Zhang, C C Wei, Y Zhao, X D Zhang. Modified textured surface MOCVD-ZnO:B transparent conductive layers for thin-film solar cells[J]. J. Semicond., 2014, 35(4): 043002. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/35/4/043002.
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Modified textured surface MOCVD-ZnO:B transparent conductive layers for thin-film solar cells
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/35/4/043002
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Abstract
Modified textured surface boron-doped ZnO (ZnO:B) transparent conductive layers for thin-film solar cells were fabricated by low-pressure metal organic chemical vapor deposition (LP-MOCVD) on glass substrates. These modified textured surface ZnO:B thin films included two layers. The first ZnO:B layer, which has a pyramid-shaped texture, was deposited under conventional growth conditions, and the second layer, which has a sphere-like structure, at a relatively lower growth temperature. Typical bi-layer ZnO:B thin films exhibit a high electron mobility of 27.6 cm2/(V· s) due to improved grain boundary states. For bi-layer ZnO:B, the haze value increases and the total transmittance decreases with the increasing film thickness of the second modification layer. When applied in hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) thin-film solar cells, the modified textured surface ZnO:B layers present relatively higher conversion efficiency than conventional ZnO:B films. -
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