Potassium Postdeposition Treatment-Induced Band Gap Widening at Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Surfaces – Reason for Performance Leap?
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Abstract
Direct and inverse photoemission were used to study the impact of alkali fluoride postdeposition treatments on the chemical and electronic surface structure of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGSe) thin films used for high-efficiency flexible solar cells. We find a large surface band gap (E(g)(Surf), up to 2.52 eV) for a NaF/KF-postdeposition treated (PDT) absorber significantly increases compared to the CIGSe bulk band gap and to the Eg(Surf) of 1.61 eV found for an absorber treated with NaF only. Both the valence band maximum (VBM) and the conduction band minimum shift away from the Fermi level. Depth-dependent photoemission measurements reveal that the VBM decreases with increasing surface sensitivity for both samples; this effect is more pronounced for the NaF/KF-PDT CIGSe sample. The observed electronic structure changes can be linked to the recent breakthroughs in CIGSe device efficiencies.
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