Ex-Situ Recrystallization of CIGS via Metal Halides

Abstract

Post Deposition Treatments (PDT) have been key to improving the efficiency of CIGS solar cells. While efficiency has continued to increase, for thermal evaporation processes, high substrate temperature and low deposition rates are a necessity. For many chemical processes, chemical vapor transport techniques can be used to both purify and grow both large and pure crystalline compounds. This is often done with a halide species and temperature. By using the substituent metals of CIGS in confluence with a halide, we explored the possibility to grow a CIGS layer at low temperature and fast rate while still having sufficiently high efficiency.