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Implementation of Zinc Sulfide (ZnS) as a Suitable Buffer Layer for CZTS Solar Cell from Numerical Analysis

Authors : Pratap Kumar Dakua, Deepak Kumar Panda

Published in: Micro and Nanoelectronics Devices, Circuits and Systems

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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Abstract

In this paper, zinc sulfide (ZnS) is taken as a suitable buffer layer in the copper zinc tin sulfide (CZTS) solar cell. The solar cell parameters have been calculated by considering the thickness and the bandgap of the ZnS layer using SCAPS 1D software. This proposed device model witnessed a good performance in all the parameters such as an efficiency of 22.08% with open-circuit voltage of 0.93 V, short-circuit current of 28.27 mA/cm2, and fill-factor of 82.61% through ZnS as a buffer layer for the copper zinc tin sulfide (CZTS) solar cell. When the absorber layer thickness is between 2 and 4 μm, we can obtain the high efficiency. By choosing the ZnS bandgap between 3.1 and 3.25 eV, the efficiency will be higher as obtained in the proposed study.

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Title: Implementation of Zinc Sulfide (ZnS) as a Suitable Buffer Layer for CZTS Solar Cell from Numerical Analysis
Authors: Pratap Kumar Dakua
Deepak Kumar Panda
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Book: Micro and Nanoelectronics Devices, Circuits and Systems
Print ISBN: 978-981-19-2307-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-19-2308-1

Copyright Year: 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2308-1_27