Rapid and accurate measurement of ideality factor and parasitic resistances of thin film solar cells

Sungeun Park; Soo Min Kim; Se Jin Park; Soohyun Bae; Hyomin Park; Jung gyu Nam; Dongho Lee; Jung Yup Yang; Dong Seop Kim; Chanbin Mo; Young Su Kim; Jihyun Kim; Hae Seok Lee; Yoonmook Kang

doi:10.1149/2.0181805jss

Rapid and accurate measurement of ideality factor and parasitic resistances of thin film solar cells

Sungeun Park, Soo Min Kim, Se Jin Park, Soohyun Bae, Hyomin Park, Jung gyu Nam, Dongho Lee, Jung Yup Yang, Dong Seop Kim, Chanbin Mo, Young Su Kim, Jihyun Kim, Hae Seok Lee, Yoonmook Kang

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The sunshade method for the measurement of the ideality factor and resistances of solar cells is commonly used in silicon solar cells. However, the method is rarely employed for thin-film solar cells. In this paper, the sunshade method is applied to CIGS solar cells, and it is shown that the three major assumptions of the method remain valid for CIGS solar cells. The extracted parameters are compared to those calculated using other common methods, and the ideality factors and R_s values are quickly determined and found to be nearly the same as those extracted through illuminated I–V fitting and dark I–V fitting.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	Q105-Q108
Journal	ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology
Volume	7
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0181805jss
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Rapid and accurate measurement of ideality factor and parasitic resistances of thin film solar cells

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