TY - JOUR A1 - Heidmann, B. A1 - Ringleb, F. A1 - Eylers, K. A1 - Levcenko, S. A1 - Bonse, Jörn A1 - Andree, Stefan A1 - Krüger, Jörg A1 - Unold, T. A1 - Boeck, T. A1 - Lux-Steiner, M. C. A1 - Schmid, M. T1 - Local growth of CuInSe2 micro solar cells for concentrator application N2 - A procedure to fabricate CuInSe2 (CISe) micro-absorbers and solar cells for concentrator applications is presented. The micro-absorbers are developed from indium precursor islands, which are deposited on a molybdenum coated glass substrate (back contact), followed by deposition of copper on top and subsequent selenization as well as selective etching of copper selenides. In order to compare the properties of the locally grown absorbers to those of conventional large area CISe films, we systematically examine the compositional and morphological homogeneity of the micro absorbers and carry out photoluminescence measurements. Preliminary devices for micro-concentrator solar cell applications are fabricated by optimizing the copper to indium ratio and the size of the indium precursor islands. The resulting micro solar cells provide a characteristic I–V curve under standard illumination conditions (1 sun). KW - Micro solar cells KW - Light concentration KW - CuInSe2 KW - Absorber optimization KW - Chalcopyrite PY - 2017 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468606917300953 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtener.2017.10.010 SN - 2468-6069 VL - 6 IS - December 2017 SP - 238 EP - 247 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-42801 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -