Abstracts Book - IMRC 2018

• SC4-P042
SEMITRANSPARENT THIN FILMS OF SrCuSeF WITH POTENTIAL
APPLICATION AS BACK CONTACTS OF SOLAR CELLS IN THE
SUPERSTRATE CONFIGURATION.
Karla Gutierrez Zayas Bazán 1 , Patricia Gutierrez Zayas Bazán 1 , Francisco de Moure Flores 2 , Ana
María Salomón Preciado 1 , Jorge Ricardo Aguilar Hernández 1 , Concepción Mejía García 1 ,
Gerardo Contreras Puente 1
1 Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas IPN, Departamento de Física Avanzada, Mexico.
2 Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Facultad de Química-Materiales, Mexico.
Semitransparent solar cells have been developed in recent years and have the
advantage that can be used by replacing the coatings for the several PV-device
ultra-thin-films used in the windows to decrease the light transmission. These
solar cells would be used to absorb the radiation and convert it into electrical
energy usable; in addition the PV-device can produce a thermally more
comfortable environment. For the construction of these cells one of the
indispensable requirements is that each one of the layers of materials, that
compose it, is sufficiently thin and possesses a good efficiency. Recently,
transparent conductive oxides, such as: SrCuSeF and BaCuSeF, have been
studied because they are widely promising in this field and they have a wide
band gap and have a high p-type conductivity. In this work we study SrCuSeF, p-
type semiconductor material, for its potential application as semitransparent
back contacts of optoelectronic devices, such as the specific case of solar cells
and radiation detectors. The characteristics and physical properties of our first
thin layers of SrCuSeF obtained by the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique
are presented. The layers were characterized by the structural, morphological
and electrical measurements.
Acknowledgment:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the project SIP-20180374 and CeMIE-Sol for
the financial support of projects P25 and P37.
Keywords: back contacts, semitransparent solar cells, p-type semiconductor material
Presenting authors email: karlazb@gmail.com