TY - JOUR
T1 - Inkjet printed Cu(In,Ga)S2 nanoparticles for low-cost solar cells
AU - Barbe, Jeremy
AU - Eid, Jessica
AU - Ahlswede, Erik
AU - Spiering, Stefanie
AU - Powalla, Michael
AU - Agrawal, Rakesh
AU - Del Gobbo, Silvano
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: The research reported in this publication was supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
PY - 2016/12/13
Y1 - 2016/12/13
N2 - Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGSe) thin film solar cells were fabricated by direct inkjet printing of Cu(In,Ga)S2 (CIGS) nanoparticles followed by rapid thermal annealing under selenium vapor. Inkjet printing is a low-cost, low-waste, and flexible patterning method which can be used for deposition of solution-based or nanoparticle-based CIGS films with high throughput. XRD and Raman spectra indicate that no secondary phase is formed in the as-deposited CIGS film since quaternary chalcopyrite nanoparticles are used as the base solution for printing. Besides, CIGSe films with various Cu/(In + Ga) ratios could be obtained by finely tuning the composition of CIGS nanoparticles contained in the ink, which was found to strongly influence the devices performance and film morphology. To date, this is the first successful fabrication of a solar device by inkjet printing of CIGS nanoparticles.
AB - Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGSe) thin film solar cells were fabricated by direct inkjet printing of Cu(In,Ga)S2 (CIGS) nanoparticles followed by rapid thermal annealing under selenium vapor. Inkjet printing is a low-cost, low-waste, and flexible patterning method which can be used for deposition of solution-based or nanoparticle-based CIGS films with high throughput. XRD and Raman spectra indicate that no secondary phase is formed in the as-deposited CIGS film since quaternary chalcopyrite nanoparticles are used as the base solution for printing. Besides, CIGSe films with various Cu/(In + Ga) ratios could be obtained by finely tuning the composition of CIGS nanoparticles contained in the ink, which was found to strongly influence the devices performance and film morphology. To date, this is the first successful fabrication of a solar device by inkjet printing of CIGS nanoparticles.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/622209
UR - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11051-016-3686-5
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85003794576&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11051-016-3686-5
DO - 10.1007/s11051-016-3686-5
M3 - Article
SN - 1388-0764
VL - 18
JO - Journal of Nanoparticle Research
JF - Journal of Nanoparticle Research
IS - 12
ER -