Innovation highway : Breakthrough milestones and key developments in chalcopyrite photovoltaics from a retrospective viewpoint

• The present contribution is a summary of an event that was organized as a special evening session in Symposium V "Chalcogenide Thin-Film Solar Cells" at the E-MRS 2016 Spring Meeting, Lille, France. The presentations in this session were given by the coauthors of this paper. These authors present retrospectives of key developments in the field of Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)(2) solar cells as they themselves had witnessed in their laboratories or companies. Also, anecdotes are brought up, which captured interesting circumstances in that evolutionary phase of the field. Because the focus was on historical perspectives rather than a comprehensive review of the field, recent developments intentionally were not addressed.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Condensed Matter Physics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Cu(ln

Ga)(5

Se)(2) solar cells

Retrospective

Cu2S solar cells

Point defects

Na impurity

Chemical bath deposition of buffer layers

Production processes for Cu(ln

Ga)(S

Se)(2)

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