TY  - JOUR
T1  - Simulation Study of ZAO/CdS/CIGS Structure Solar Cells by SCAPS
AU - Ferouani, A.M. AU - Boudia, M.R. Merad AU - Cheknane, A. AU - Benyoucef, B. AU - Hachemi, H. 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 6
IS  - 5
SP  - 332
EP  - 335
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2011.332.335
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2011.332.335
KW  - Thin film solar cells
KW  -SCAPS
KW  -CIGS
KW  -temperature
KW  -buffer layers
KW  -conversion
AB  - In this study, researchers are interested in studying the Copper-Indium-Gallium-Selenium (CIGS) solar cells sandwiched between Cadmiumsulfide (CdS) and ZAO, this TCO consists of heavily Al-doped ZnO (ZAO) as buffer layers and Molybdenum (Mo). Thus, we report the simulation results using the capacitance simulator (SCAPS) in terms of layer thickness, absorber layer band gap and operating temperature to find out the optimum choice. An efficiency of 20.09% (with V<SUB>oc</SUB> of 0.633 V, J<SUB>sc</SUB> of 42.94 mA cm<SUP>-2</SUP> and fill factor of 0.74) has been achieved with CdS used as buffer layer as the reference case. It is also found that the high efficiency of CIGS cells at low temperature were a very high efficiency conversion.
ER  -