
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rakhshani, AE 
A1  - Lyons, LE 
T1  - Photoelectrochemical cells with n-CdTe
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1982
VL  - 35
IS  - 10
SP  - 1949
EP  - 1959
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9821949 
N2  - The opto-electrical behaviour of single crystal n-type CdTe in aqueous solutions containing several redox couples Sn2+,4+, Fe2+3+ and Fe(CN)63-,4-in the dark and under irradiation is described. The minority carrier diffusion length was 0.13 &#956;m from a combination of results on photocurrents and capacitance. The dopant concentration was 1.4 &#215; 1017 cm-3 from Mott-Schottky plots. In the cdTe-Sn2+,4+ system the photovoltaic properties of the junction depended on the state of charge injection into the interface region. We distinguished between a 'high state' and a 'low state' where in the 'high state' both the open circuit photovoltage and the fill factor were approximately twice as large as in the 'low state'. Possibilities for a difference in the value of the built-in potential obtained from the photocurrent method and from a Mott-Schottky plot are described. The built-in potential (or the flat-band potential) was independent of the redox potential, an effect which is analogous to Fermi-level pinning. The empirical relationship between barrier height and band gap in a Fermi-level pinned junction held for our system. 
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