Research on structural characteristics of large-scale CdS thin films deposited by CBD under low ammonia condition

Abstract

Cadmium sulfide (CdS) buffer layers with the scale of 10 cm×10 cm are deposited by chemical bath deposition (CBD) with different temperatures and thiourea concentrations under low ammonia condition. There are obvious hexagonal phases and cubic phases in CdS thin films under the conditions of low temperature and high thiourea concentration. The main reason is that the heterogeneous reaction is dominant for homogeneous reaction. At low temperature, CdS thin films with good uniformity and high transmittance are deposited by adjusting the thiourea concentration, and there is almost no precipitation in reaction solution. In addition, the low temperature is desired in assembly line. The transmittance and the band gap of CdS thin films are above 80% and about 2.4 eV, respectively. These films are suitable for the buffer layers of large-scale Cu(In,Ga)Se₂ (CIGS) solar cells.

Keywords

Solar Cell / Chemical Bath Deposition / Cadmium Sulfide / Chemical Bath Deposition Method / Thiourea Concentration

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This work has been supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No.2012AA050701).