Direct evidence for grain-boundary depletion in polycrystalline CdTe from nanoscale-resolved measurements

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 556-558

  Visoly Fisher, Iris ^a   Cohen, Sidney R ^a   Cahen, David ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SOLAR CELLS;

KELVIN PROBE MICROSCOPY;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0037467944     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1542926     Document Type: Article

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