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CIGS, Interfaces, and Buffers
  Thursday, June 11, 2026           1:30 - 3:00 PM
Moderators
Mike Scarpulla, Ryan Muzzio
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Presentations
1:30 MULTI-RESONANT LIGHT TRAPPING IN ULTRATHIN CU(IN,GA)SE2 SOLAR CELLS: FROM CONCEPT TO DESIGN RULES (yes)
Merve Demir1, Daniel Jimenez1, Bodo Fuhrmann2, Matthias Maiberg1, Marcel Schrader1, Paul Rondt1, Heiko Kempa1, Alexander Sprafke1,2, Roland Scheer1. 1Institute of Physics, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany 2Interdisciplinary Center of Materials Science, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
2:00 NATIVE OXIDE GROWTH ON POLYCRYSTALLINE UNDOPED CDSETE/CDTE SURFACES AND ITS IMPACT ON SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE (yes)
Sushmakanth Myneni, Mayank Mate, Amit Munshi, Walajabad Sampath. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
2:15 OXIDE FORMATION ON CDTE AND MGXCD1-XTE AS A BACK SURFACE PASSIVATION MATERIAL
Noah Kamm1, Xiaoyang Liu2, Zheng Ju2, Xin Qi2, Yong-Hang Zhang2, Anthony Nicholson3, Amit Munshi3, D. Bruce Busshholz4, Arashdeep Thind1, Robert Klie1. 1Department of Physics, University of Illinois in Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA 4Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
2:30 ZN-ALLOYED SNO2 BUFFER LAYERS FOR THIN FILM CDSETE/CDTE SOLAR CELLS (yes)
Zeyad Elsayed1, Samuel E. Machin1, Ana Jurado-Estrada1, Luis C. Infante-Ortega1, Mustafa Togay1, Luksa Kujovic1, Sam Davis1, Zhaoxia Zhou1, Stuart Robertson1, Jake W. Bowers1, John M. Walls1, Pascal Jundt2, Bettina Spaeth2, Christian Drost2, Robert Arndt2. 1Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST), Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom 2CTF Solar GmbH, Dresden, Germany
2:45 SPRAYED NIOX AS A HOLE TRANSPORT MATERIAL IN CDSE-BASED SOLAR CELLS WITH SUPERSTRATE AND SUBSTRATE CONFIGURATIONS
Ujjwal Dhakal, Sabin Neupane, Manoj Jamarkattel, Kiran Lamichhane, Suresh Chaulagain, Sanjeeb Budhathoki, Hamim Sharif, Arun Basnet, Alisha Adhikari, Prabin Dulal, Joel Blodgett, Muhammad Mohsin Saeed, Nikolas Podraza, Randy Ellingson, Michael Heben, Yanfa Yan. University of Toledo, PVIC, Toledo, OH, USA