Some problems of the thin-film cadmium-sulfide solar cell

Polycrystalline Thin-Film Cadmium Telluride Solar Cells Fabriacted by Electrodeposition

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Innovative Elastic Thin-Film Solar Cell Structures

Occupational exposure to arsenic and cadmium in thin-film solar cell production.

INTRODUCTION Workers involved in the production of Cd/As-based photovoltaic modules may be routinely or accidentally exposed to As- or Cd-containing inorganic compounds. METHODS Workers' exposure to As and Cd was investigated by environmental monitoring following a worst-case approach and biological monitoring from the preparation of the working facility to its decommissioning. Workplace surf...

The impact of sodium contamination in tin sulfide thin-film solar cells

The impact of sodium contamination in tin sulfide thin-film solar cells Vera Steinmann,1,a Riley E. Brandt,1 Rupak Chakraborty,1 R. Jaramillo,1 Matthew Young,2 Benjamin K. Ofori-Okai,1 Chuanxi Yang,3 Alex Polizzotti,1 Keith A. Nelson,1 Roy G. Gordon,3 and Tonio Buonassisi1 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, ...

Thin-film Silicon Solar Cells

The simplest semiconductor junction that is used in solar cells for separating photogenerated charge carriers is the p-n junction, an interface between the p-type region and ntype region of one semiconductor. Therefore, the basic semiconductor property of a material, the possibility to vary its conductivity by doping, has to be demonstrated first before the material can be considered as a suita...