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ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF A PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL BASED THIN FILMS CZTS BY SCAPS

C. Mebarkia,D. Dib,Hana Zerfaoui,R. Belghit

Published 2016 in Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences

ABSTRACT

In the overall context of the diversification of th e use of natural resources, the use of renewable energy including solar photovoltaic has b ecome increasingly indispensable. As such, the development of a new generation of photovoltaic cells based on CuZnSnS4 (CZTS) looks promising. Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) is a new film absorber, with good physical properties (band gap energy 1.4-1.6 eV [01] with a large absor ption coefficient over 10 4 cm -1 ). Indeed, the performance of these cells exceeded 30% in rece nt years.In the present paper, our work based on modeling and numerical simulation, we used SCAPS to study the performance of solar cells based on Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) and thus evaluate the electrical efficiency η for typical structures of ZnO / i- ZnO / CdS / CZTS and ITO / ZnO / CdS / CZTS. Furthermore, the influence of the change of CdS by ZnSe buffer l ayer was treated in this paper.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2016

  • Venue

    Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences

  • Publication date

    2016-05-01

  • Fields of study

    Materials Science, Physics, Engineering, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.4314/JFAS.V8I2.13
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    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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