Mercury cadmium telluride solar cell with 10.6% efficiency

1986/04/07 by Bulent M. Basol, Bülent M. Başol, Eric S. Tseng
Engineering · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films #Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials #nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions

paper · doi:10.1063/1.96667

Abstract

Cd-rich mercury cadmium telluride (MCT) is a promising material for thin-film solar cell applications. In this letter we present data on the deposition of MCT films by a simple electroplating technique and report on the highest efficiency polycrystalline MCT thin-film solar cell to date, which has an efficiency of 10.6% under AM1.5 illumination.

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