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<journal-id>1665-3521</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Superficies y vacío]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Superf. vacío]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1665-3521</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Sociedad Mexicana de Ciencia y Tecnología de Superficies y Materiales A.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1665-35212015000200061</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Study on the ITO/ZnO interface and its effect on CdS/CdTe solar cell performance]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Zapata-Torres]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[M.]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Fernández-Muñoz]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[J.L.]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Hernández-Rodríguez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[E.]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Mis- Fernández]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[R.]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Rejon]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[V.]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Peña]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[J.L.]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Márquez Herrera]]></surname>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Politécnico Nacional Centro de Investigación en Ciencia Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[México D.F.]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,IPN CINVESTAV Departamento de Física Aplicada]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Mérida Yucatán]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Politécnico Nacional Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinarias en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[México D.F.]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<aff id="Af4">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Guanajuato DICIVA Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica Agrícola]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Irapuato Guanajuato]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2015</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2015</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>28</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>61</fpage>
<lpage>65</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1665-35212015000200061&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1665-35212015000200061&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1665-35212015000200061&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: ZnO thin films have been deposited on ITO coated glass substrates, using RF magnetron reactive sputtering from a Zn target. The ZnO films were annealed at 560 °C for 1 hour, in order to promote the diffusion of the ITO into ZnO. The properties of the samples were analyzed by X- ray diffraction (XRD), UV-Vis spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The ITO/ZnO interface showed a diffusion of 50 nm approximately. In order to study the effect of ZnO thickness, in the performance of the CdS/CdTe solar cell, we used an AMPS-1D solar simulator; the results showed that reduction of the ZnO thickness had a weak influence in the efficiency of the solar cell.]]></p></abstract>
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