Cadmium-telluride - Material for thin film solar cells

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2740-2753

  Bonnet, Dieter ^a   Meyers, Peter ^b  

^a ANTEC GmbH   (Germany)

^b ITN Energy Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE SOLAR CELLS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; ENERGY CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS;

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE;

SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0032186945     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.1998.0376     Document Type: Article

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