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Zinc Oxide Grown by CVD Process as Transparent Contact for Thin Film Solar Cell Applications

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Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition of ZnO films (MOCVD) [1] started to be comprehensively investigated in the 1980s, when thin film industries were looking for ZnO deposition processes especially useful for large-scale coatings at high growth rates. Later on, when TCO for thin film solar cells started to be developed, another advantage of growing TCO films by the CVD process has been highlighted: the surface roughness. Indeed, a large number of studies on CVD ZnO revealed that an as-grown rough surface cn be obtained with this deposition process [2–4]. A rough surface induces a light scattering effect, which can significantly improve light trapping (and therefore current photo-generation) within thin film silicon solar cells. The CVD process, indeed, directly leads to as-grown rough ZnO films without any post-etching step (the latter is often introduced to obtain a rough surface, when working with as-deposited flat sputtered ZnO). This fact could turn out to be a significant advantage when upscaling the manufacturing process for actual commercial production of thin film solar modules. The zinc and oxygen sources for CVD growth of ZnO films are given in Table 6.1.

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Faÿ, S., Shah, A. (2008). Zinc Oxide Grown by CVD Process as Transparent Contact for Thin Film Solar Cell Applications. In: Ellmer, K., Klein, A., Rech, B. (eds) Transparent Conductive Zinc Oxide. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 104. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73612-7_6

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