Transparent Conductive Oxides (TCOs) are an
increasingly important component of solar cells, where they act as front
electrode elements.The structural templates, diffusion barriers and their work
function controls the open circuit voltage(Voc). In this paper, various
transparent conductive oxide materials have been studied which are used as the
front surface contacts of CdS:O/CdTe based thin film solar cells. Various
electrical and optical parameters like work function, thickness, temperature
etc., of some common transparent conductive oxides materials such as ZnO, FTO,
SnO2etc., are studied. The main idea was to find an optimum conductive oxide
layer for CdTe solar cell which shows the great potential in thin film area of
solar cell. All the analysis was done by using the widely used simulator
Analysis of Microelectronic and Photonic Structures (AMPS 1D). It was observed
that both SnO2and ZnOshow similar performance under various conditions. Indium
Tin Oxide (ITO) has shown the worst performance among them in all conditions.
Fluorinated Tin Oxide (FTO) looked promising match for CdTe solar cells in some
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