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Advances in OptoElectronics
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 97545, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/97545
Thin-Film Solar Cells Based on the Polycrystalline Compound Semiconductors CIS and CdTe
1Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), Industriest 6, Stuttgart 70565, Germany
2SOLARPACT, Breslauer Ring 9a, Friedrichsdorf 61381, Germany
Received 7 May 2007; Accepted 18 July 2007
Academic Editor: Armin G. Aberle
Copyright © 2007 Michael Powalla and Dieter Bonnet. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Thin-film photovoltaic modules based on Cu-In-Ga-Se-S (CIS) and CdTe are already being produced with high-quality and solar conversion efficiencies of around 10%, with values up to
14% expected in the near future. The integrated interconnection of single cells into large-area
modules of