Electrical and optical properties of boron doped CdS thin films prepared by chemical bath deposition

Jae Hyeong Lee; Jun Sin Yi; Kea Joon Yang; Joon Hoon Park; Ryum Duk Oh

doi:10.1016/S0040-6090(03)00153-6

Electrical and optical properties of boron doped CdS thin films prepared by chemical bath deposition

Jae Hyeong Lee
, Jun Sin Yi
, Kea Joon Yang
, Joon Hoon Park
, Ryum Duk Oh

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Korea National University of Transportation

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Abstract

Boron doped CdS films were prepared by chemical bath deposition, which is a low-cost and large-area technique and appears to be well-suited for the manufacture of thin film solar cells, using boric acid (H₃BO₃) as dopant source, and their properties were investigated as a function of doping concentration. In addition, effects of the boron doping of the CdS films on the characteristics of CdS/CdTe solar cells were investigated. As the boron doping concentration increased, the resistivity of CdS films rapidly decreased and exhibited the lowest resistivity of 2 Ω cm at 0.01 of H₃BO₃/CdAc₂ mole ratio. Boron doping into CdS films improved the optical transmittance in the visible region of light and increased the optical band gap. The photovoltaic characteristics of CdS/CdTe solar cells using boron doped CdS film as the window layer were improved due to the increase of the electrical conductivity and the optical band gap of CdS films.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	344-348
Number of pages	5
Journal	Thin Solid Films
Volume	431-432
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-6090(03)00153-6
State	Published - 1 May 2003
Event	Proceedings of Symposium B - Strasbourg, France Duration: 18 Jun 2002 → 21 Jun 2002

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Keywords

Boron
Cadmium sulphide
Cadmium telluride
Solar cells

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