Tungsten oxide as a p-type window material in amorphous silicon solar cells
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Fang, Liang; Baik, Seung Jae; Kim, Jeong Won; Yoo, Seung Hyup; Jeon, Jin-Wan; Kang, Sang Jung; Kim, Yoon Hak; Lim, Koeng Su
- Source
- 2010 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2010 35th IEEE. :001496-001499 Jun, 2010
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics and Electrooptics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Photovoltaic cells
Amorphous silicon
Optical films
Tungsten
- Language
- ISSN
- 0160-8371
A p-type amorphous tungsten oxide (p-a-WO 3 ) film was prepared using a vacuum thermal evaporator with a WO 3 source. By replacing a 10 nm-thick p-type amorphous silicon carbide window layer of a pin-type amorphous silicon based solar cell with a 10 nm-thick p-a-WO 3 film, the short circuit current density increased from 12.75 to 13.83 mA/cm 2 . Although the open circuit voltage was limited to 0.65 V due to the smaller work function of the p-a-WO 3 , the a-Si based solar cell with the novel p-a-WO 3 window layer has shown a conversion efficiency of 6.05 %. Our research opens a new application field for thin film solar cells.