Solar cell based on copper (I) oxide and cadmium tin oxide.

As a solar cell a heterostructure has been proposed that consists of an anode copper oxide CuO and a transparent conductive layer Cd-Sn-O obtained via extraction-pyrolytic method. The heterostructure is formed on a copper substrate by means of anodic oxidation with further applying a transparent conductive oxide film. An increase in the efficiency of the CuO/Cd-Sn-O element compared with Cu-CuO structure has been shown to be possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]