Metastability and Long-term Degradation in CIGS Devices: Effect of Alkali Treatments and Emitter Layers Award Number: DE-EE0007750 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Solar Energy Technologies Office Date: 11/18/2016 Location(s): NV Office(s): Golden Field...
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Metastability and Long-term Degradation in CIGS Devices: Effect of Alkali Treatments and Emitter Layers
Award Number: DE-EE0007750
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Solar Energy Technologies Office
Date: 11/18/2016
Location(s): NV
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) to fabricate and test copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) solar cells in order to provide fundamental understanding of material behavior under simulated field conditions.
Proposed activities include the design and fabrication of samples, electro-optical and accelerated lifetime testing, device simulation, and computer modeling. Solar cell samples would be fabricated at UNLV and Zentrum für Sonnenenergie-und Wasserstoff (ZSW) in Stuttgart, Germany. Other material fabrication work would be undertaken by commercial solar cell manufacturers Stion and Nuvosun in California. Laboratory-scale testing and device modeling using simulation software would occur at UNLV. Additional materials modeling and computational work would take place at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.