The present invention provides a semiconductor film which adapts to the solar cell in both of band gap and electric resistivity or carrier concentration.
In the present invention, a semiconductor film is composed of a semiconductor including group 11 elements, group 12 elements, group 13 elements and group 16 element of the ratio indicated as a composition formula (1) in below,
AxByCzDw (1)
wherein A, B, C and D indicate said group 11 elements, said group 12 elements, said group 13 elements and said group 16 elements, respectively, x, y, z and w are respectively numbers indicating a composition ratio, and x and z satisfy a relationship of x/z>1.