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We use admittance spectroscopy to characterize the energy distribution of defects in CIGSe solar cells before and after annealing to investigate the mechanism of the annealing process improving the performances of solar cells. In this work, we anneal the prepared CIGSe solar cells in compressed air at 150 ℃ for 10 min. We measure dark I-V, C-V, admittance spectra, and illumination I-V tests on CIGSe solar cells before and after annealing to characterize the changes in the performances of solar cells before and after annealing, respectively. The test results of dark I-V characteristics show that the reverse dark current of CIGSe solar cell decreases by about an order of magnitude after annealing, and the ideal factor of the cell also decreases from 2.16 (before annealing) to 1.85 (after annealing). This means that the annealing process reduces the recombination of carriers in CIGSe solar cell. Under reverse bias, the capacitance of CIGSe solar cell is higher than that after annealing, and its C-V characteristics linearly fitted with 1/C 2 vs. V. The fitting results show that the slope of the curve increases after annealing, which means that the annealing process results in a decrease in the free carrier concentration in the absorption layer of CIGSe solar cell, specifically, the carrier concentration contributed by defects after annealing decreases. In addition, the built-in potential before and after annealing of CIGSe solar cell are also obtained through fitting, which are 0.52 V and 0.64 V in value, respectively. The admittance spectrum test results of CIGSe solar cell before and after annealing show that the defect activation energy in the absorption layer significantly decreases after annealing, but the defect concentration remains almost unchanged. The decrease in defect activation energy means that the Shockley Read Hall (SRH) recombination probability of defects in copper indium gallium selenium solar cell decreases. In addition, the test results of the optical I-V characteristics of the battery indicate that the open circuit voltage and parallel resistance of the solar cell significantly increase after annealing, which is consistent with the test results of the dark I-V characteristics, C-V characteristics, and admittance spectroscopy of the solar cell. Therefore, the annealing process of CIGSe solar cells leads to theweakening of the SRH recombination of carriers in the absorption layer of the cell, thereby improving the performance of the solar cell.
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[19] Heise S J, Hirwa H, Stölzel M, Dalibor T, Ohland J 2022 Thin Solid Films 759 1
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[21] Schroder D K 2015 Semiconductor Material and Device Characterization (John Wiley & Sons
[22] Sah C T 1991 Fundamentals of Solid-State Electronics (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company
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[1] Roulston D J, Arora N D, Chamberlain S G 1982 IEEE T. Electron Dev. 29 284Google Scholar
[2] Lang D V 1974 J. Appl. Phys. 45 3023Google Scholar
[3] Le Comber P G, Spear W E 1970 Phys. Rev. Lett. 25 509Google Scholar
[4] Bailey J, Zapalac G, Poplavskyy D 2016 IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) Portland, OR, USA, June 5–10, 2016 p2135
[5] Hartmann F 2017 Springer Tracts in Modern Physics (Heidelberg: Springer Berlin) p275
[6] Bollmann J, Venter A 2018 Physica B 535 237Google Scholar
[7] Huang J S, Yuan Y B, Shao Y C 2017 Nat. Rev. Mater. 2 17042
[8] Gudovskikh A S, Kleider J P, Damon-Lacoste J, Roca I, Cabarrocas P, Veschetti Y, Muller J C, Ribeyron P J, Rolland E 2006 Thin Solid Films 511–512 385Google Scholar
[9] Walter T, Herberholz R, Müller C, Schock H W 1996 J. Appl. Phys. 80 4411Google Scholar
[10] Liguori R, Rubino A, 2021 Mater Today Proc 44 2033.Google Scholar
[11] Lee J, Cohen J D, Shafarman W N 2005 Thin Solid Films 480–481 336Google Scholar
[12] Dueñas S, Jaraiz M, Vicente J, Rubio E, Bailón L, Barbolla J 1987 J. Appl. Phys. 61 2541Google Scholar
[13] Burgelman M, Nollet P 2005 Solid State Ion. 176 2171Google Scholar
[14] Baranov A I, Kudryashov D A, Uvarov A V, et al. 2021 Tech. Phys. Lett. 47 785Google Scholar
[15] Karataş Ş, Türüt A 2004 Vacuum 74 45Google Scholar
[16] Marin A T, Musselman K P, MacManus-Driscoll J L 2013 J. Appl. Phys. 113 144502Google Scholar
[17] Kobayashi T, Kao Z J L, Nakada T 2015 Sol. Energy Mater Sol. Cells 143 159.Google Scholar
[18] Werner F, Siebentritt S 2018 Phys. Rev. Appl. 9 054047Google Scholar
[19] Heise S J, Hirwa H, Stölzel M, Dalibor T, Ohland J 2022 Thin Solid Films 759 1
[20] Paul S, Lopez R, Repins I L, Li J V 2018 J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 36 022904Google Scholar
[21] Schroder D K 2015 Semiconductor Material and Device Characterization (John Wiley & Sons
[22] Sah C T 1991 Fundamentals of Solid-State Electronics (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company
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