THE INFLUENCE OF THE ABSORBER LAYER THICKNESS ON THE EFFICIENCY OF CDTE/CDS/ZNO HETEROSTRUCTURE
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https://doi.org/10.30888/2709-2267.2025-31-00-038Keywords:
solar cell, CdTe solar cell, CdTe absorber layer, second generation solar cellAbstract
The modeling results of CdTe-based photovoltaic heterostructures performed in the SCAPS software package are presented. It is shown that thin CdTe layers provide high optical absorption and a conversion efficiency of approximately 17 %. Increasing the absMetrics
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