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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2011
Pierre-philippe Grand, Rousset, FR;
Salvador Jaime, Rousset, FR;
Philippe DE Gasquet, Rousset, FR;
Hariklia Deligianni, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Lubomyr T. Romankiw, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Raman Vaidyanathan, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Qiang Huang, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Shafaat Ahmed, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Pierre-Philippe Grand, Rousset, FR;
Salvador Jaime, Rousset, FR;
Philippe De Gasquet, Rousset, FR;
Hariklia Deligianni, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Lubomyr T. Romankiw, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Raman Vaidyanathan, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Qiang Huang, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Shafaat Ahmed, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
NEXCIS, Rousset, FR;
Abstract
The invention relates to manufacturing a I-III-VI compound in the form of a thin film for use in photovoltaics, including the steps of: a) electrodepositing a thin-film structure, consisting of I and/or III elements, onto the surface of an electrode that forms a substrate (SUB); and b) incorporating at least one VI element into the structure so as to obtain the I-III-VI compound. According to the invention, the electrodeposition step comprises checking that the uniformity of the thickness of the thin film varies by no more than 3% over the entire surface of the substrate receiving the deposition.