Freitag, 01. Dezember 2017, 15:15 - 16:45 iCal

15. Erwin Schrödinger Kolloquium

"Production of micro solar cells using femtosecond laser pulses"

Dr. Jörg Krüger

(Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Berlin)

Universität Wien, Chemische Institute, Hörsaal 4, Halbstock
Währinger Straße 42, 1090 Wien

Vortrag


A promising technology in photovoltaics is based on micro-concentrator solar cells, where the photovoltaic active area is realized as an array of sub-millimeter sized thin-film solar cells. For copper-indium-gallium-diselenide (CIGSe), the solar cells can be arranged in the foci of a regular arrangement of micro-lenses to enhance their efficiency by light concentration, to allow a better heat dissipation and to save expensive raw material (indium). Different approaches to produce micro-sized precursors of CIGSe absorbers on molybdenum are presented using 30-fs laser pulses at 790 nm wavelength. On the one hand, a multi pulse surface structuring of the molybdenum or the underlying glass substrate and a subsequent physical vapor deposition (PVD) process were used for a site-selective aggregation of indium droplets (see figure). On the other hand, a single pulse laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT) was utilized to selectively deposit combined copper/indium/gallium precursor pixels on the molybdenum back contact of the solar cell. It was demonstrated that a postprocessing (selenization, isolation, contacting) of the laser-generated micro-sized precursors results in an array of working CIGSe solar cells with an efficiency of 2.8% for 1 sun illumination.


Veranstalter

Erwin Schrödinger Gesellschaft für Nanowissenschaften


Kontakt

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kautek
Universität Wien
Institut für Physikalische Chemie
0043 664 60277 52470
wolfgang.kautek@univie.ac.at