CN104124310A - Preparation method of flexible CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium Selenide) film solar battery barrier layer - Google Patents

Preparation method of flexible CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium Selenide) film solar battery barrier layer Download PDF

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CN104124310A
CN104124310A CN201410395198.8A CN201410395198A CN104124310A CN 104124310 A CN104124310 A CN 104124310A CN 201410395198 A CN201410395198 A CN 201410395198A CN 104124310 A CN104124310 A CN 104124310A
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Abstract

The invention mainly relates to a preparation method of a flexible CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium Selenide) film solar battery barrier layer. The method is characterized in that a flexible metal material is taken as a substrate material of a battery. Specific to the aim of preventing the diffusion of harmful elements in a substrate from causing reduction in the battery performance, a tungsten-titanium alloy barrier layer is prepared by adopting a magnetron sputtering method. The material cost and preparation process cost of the diffusion baffle barrier are low, thereby reducing the production cost. Moreover, the crystallization quality of a back electrode and a photovoltaic absorption layer can be improved remarkably, and the optical performance of the battery is improved.

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The preparation method on a kind of flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells barrier layer
One, technical field
The invention belongs to CIGS thin-film solar cell technical field, relate in particular to the preparation method on barrier layer in a kind of flexible substrate.
Two, background technology
Energy crisis and environmental pollution are the two large basic problems that the current whole world faces.Solar energy because of its area coverage wide, inexhaustible good characteristic, makes it to become a kind of important channel that solves energy crisis.The advantages such as CIGS thin-film solar cells is adjustable because of its material optical band gap, capability of resistance to radiation is strong, battery performance is stable, the low light level is good, make it to become one of photovoltaic material the most promising in thin-film solar cells.
The CIGS thin-film solar cells of flexible substrate is taking metal forming that can flexing or polymer foil as substrate.In space, application is more satisfactory photovoltaic device for it, CIGS flexible thin-film battery not only gravimetric specific power is high, and flexible folding, be not afraid of to touch and fall, can be applied in a lot of special occasions, comprise on roof, clothes, vehicle top and aerospace field etc., there is wide range of application and the market space.
At present, flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells is substrate mainly with polymer foil and metal forming, with respect to polymer foil substrate, metal foil substrate price is lower, can reduce the cost of battery, and, high efficiency device absorbed layer needs higher preparation temperature, metal foil substrate resistance to elevated temperatures is better, yet have above reasonable mechanical stability and thermal stability, and the softening temperature of polymer foil substrate is lower than 500 DEG C at 600 DEG C.
But prepare in the process of CIGS film at high temperature, the harmful element (Fe etc.) in metal foil substrate can diffuse in CIGS absorbed layer, reduce the opto-electronic conversion performance of battery.In order to stop the harmful element in substrate to diffuse in absorbed layer, before deposition Mo back electrode, first deposit one deck barrier layer, this barrier layer can effectively stop the diffusion of harmful element, promotes the photoelectric properties of flexible battery.
There are Cr, Al in the impurity barrier layer generally using at present 2o 3, SiO x, Si 3n 4, the material such as ZnO, it is reported that Cr barrier layer can effectively stop the diffusion of the impurity elements such as Fe, but Cr element also can be diffused in absorbed layer, the lifting of battery performance is not played to effective effect.Al 2o 3, SiO x, Si 3n 4, the barrier layer such as the ZnO problem that there will be cracking to depart from the preparation process of battery and use procedure, thereby reduce battery rate of finished products and useful life (Kessled F, Rudmann D.Technological aspects of flexible CIGS solar cells and modules[J] .Solar Energy, 2004,77:685-695).The present invention adopts tungsten-titanium alloy layer as the diffusion impervious layer between flexible substrate and back electrode.
Three, summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide the preparation method of diffusion impervious layer in a kind of flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells, adopt barrier material provided by the invention and preparation method can improve the opto-electronic conversion performance of flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells, reduce manufacturing cost, improve stability prepared by large area film.
The present invention is achieved through the following technical solutions:
The preparation method on described flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells barrier layer is in flexible substrate, to adopt magnetically controlled sputter method to prepare one deck tungsten-titanium alloy barrier layer.
Described flexible substrate is the metal substrate such as stainless steel, copper, aluminium, nickel.
The target that described magnetron sputtering method is selected is commercially available tungsten-titanium alloy target, and purity is 3N.
In described magnetron sputtering method, the distance of substrate and target is 50-200mm.
Working gas in described magnetron sputtering method is that purity is the pure argon, pure nitrogen gas, purity oxygen of 4N or two or more mist wherein.
The base vacuum degree of described magnetron sputtering machine is 1.0 × 10 -4pa-1.0 × 10 -2pa, operating air pressure is 0.1Pa-10Pa.
In described magnetron sputtering method, base reservoir temperature is 20-250 DEG C, and sputtering time is 5-180min.
In described magnetron sputtering method, Sputtering power density is 0.02-10W/cm 2.
The thickness on described barrier layer is 0.01-3 μ m.
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Fig. 1 is surface scan electron microscope (SEM) figure of the tungsten-titanium alloy layer prepared of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is cross section scanning electron microscopy (SEM) figure of the tungsten-titanium alloy layer prepared of the present invention.
Five, embodiment
Introduce embodiments of the invention below, but the present invention is limited to absolutely not embodiment.
Embodiment 1:
Prepare flexible battery barrier layer: select the substrate of stainless steel (S430) as flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells, after cleaning the substrate, put into magnetic control sputtering device.Working gas adopts argon gas, and base vacuum is 1.0E-2Pa, and operating air pressure is 0.1Pa, and Sputtering power density is 0.03W/cm 2, target-substrate distance is 200mm, sputtering time is 20min, the tungsten-titanium alloy layer of preparation 0.4 μ m.
At prepared barrier layer surface sputter back electrode molybdenum layer and photovoltaic absorption layer CIGS, after high annealing, adopt chemical bath deposition method to prepare cadmium sulfide layer, magnetron sputtering method is prepared native oxide zinc layer and Al-Doped ZnO layer, make flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells (Patrick Reinhard, Fabian Pianezzi.Flexible Cu (In, Ga) Se 2solar cells with reducedabsorber thickness[J] .Prog.Photvolt, 2013,2420).
Embodiment 2:
Prepare flexible battery barrier layer: select the substrate of Copper Foil as flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells, after cleaning the substrate, put into magnetic control sputtering device.Working gas adopts nitrogen, and base vacuum is 4.0E-3Pa, and operating air pressure is 3Pa, and Sputtering power density is 10W/cm 2, target-substrate distance is 50mm, sputtering time is 180min, the tungsten-titanium alloy layer of preparation 3 μ m.
At prepared barrier layer surface sputter back electrode molybdenum layer and photovoltaic absorption layer CIGS, after high annealing, adopt chemical bath deposition method to prepare cadmium sulfide layer, magnetron sputtering method is prepared native oxide zinc layer and Al-Doped ZnO layer, make flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells (Patrick Reinhard, Fabian Pianezzi.Flexible Cu (In, Ga) Se 2solar cells with reducedabsorber thickness[J] .Prog.Photvolt, 2013,2420).
Embodiment 3:
Prepare flexible battery barrier layer: select the substrate of nickel foil as flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells, after cleaning the substrate, put into magnetic control sputtering device.Working gas adopts argon gas, and base vacuum is 1.0E-4Pa, and operating air pressure is 10Pa, and Sputtering power density is 3W/cm 2, target-substrate distance is 100mm, sputtering time is 20min, the tungsten-titanium alloy layer of preparation 0.4 μ m.
At prepared barrier layer surface sputter back electrode molybdenum layer and photovoltaic absorption layer CIGS, after fast high annealing, adopt chemical bath deposition method to prepare cadmium sulfide layer, magnetron sputtering method is prepared native oxide zinc layer and Al-Doped ZnO layer, make flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells (Patrick Reinhard, Fabian Pianezzi.Flexible Cu (In, Ga) Se 2solar cells with reducedabsorber thickness[J] .Prog.Photvolt, 2013,2420).

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1. the preparation method on flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells barrier layer, is characterized in that, adopts magnetron sputtering technique deposition one deck barrier layer in flexible substrate.
2. the preparation method on flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells according to claim 1 barrier layer, is characterized in that, the material of the flexible substrate of employing is metal, is preferably: stainless steel, copper, aluminium, nickel.
3. the preparation method on flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells according to claim 1 barrier layer, is characterized in that, the target that described magnetron sputtering method is selected is commercially available tungsten-titanium alloy target, and purity is 3N.
4. the preparation method on flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells according to claim 1 barrier layer, is characterized in that, in described magnetron sputtering method, the distance of substrate and target is 50-200mm.
5. the preparation method on flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells according to claim 1 barrier layer, it is characterized in that, working gas in described magnetron sputtering method is that purity is pure argon, pure nitrogen gas, the purity oxygen of 4N, or two or more mist wherein.
6. the preparation method on flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells according to claim 1 barrier layer, is characterized in that, the base vacuum degree of magnetron sputtering machine is 1.0 × 10 -4pa-1.0 × 10 -2pa, operating air pressure is 0.1Pa-10Pa.
7. the preparation method of flexible CIGS thin film solar power block layer according to claim 1, is characterized in that, in described magnetron sputtering method, base reservoir temperature is 20-250 DEG C, and sputtering time is 5-180min.
8. the preparation method on flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells according to claim 1 barrier layer, is characterized in that, in described magnetron sputtering method, Sputtering power density is 0.02-10W/cm 2.
9. the preparation method on flexible CIGS thin-film solar cells according to claim 1 barrier layer, is characterized in that, the thickness on described barrier layer is 0.01-3 μ m.
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