2134/24320 Sona Ulicna Sona Ulicna Panagiota Arnou Panagiota Arnou Carl Cooper Carl Cooper Lewis Wright Lewis Wright Andrei Malkov Andrei Malkov Michael Walls Michael Walls Jake Bowers Jake Bowers Hydrazine-free metal chalcogenide precursor solutions for sprayed CuIn(S,Se)2 thin film solar cells Loughborough University 2017 untagged Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified 2017-03-07 10:49:49 Conference contribution https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Hydrazine-free_metal_chalcogenide_precursor_solutions_for_sprayed_CuIn_S_Se_2_thin_film_solar_cells/9389429 CuIn(S,Se)2 (CIS) absorbers have been prepared by dissolving copper and indium sulphides in a hydrazine-free mixture of solvents, followed by spray deposition of the solution on molybdenum coated glass substrates. It was found that the choice of the solvent for dilution of the precursor solution can have an influence on the absorber quality and consequently, the device performance. The sprayed absorbers were implemented in solar cell devices, resulting in power conversion efficiencies (PCE) exceeding 7%.