Anomalous Grain Boundary Physics in Polycrystalline CuInSe2: The Existence of a Hole Barrier

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 26 I, 2003, Pages 2664011-2664014

  Persson, Clas ^a   Zunger, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; ELECTRONS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NEGATIVE IONS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SILICON; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

GRAIN INTERIOR (GI); POLYMATERIALS;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 1042288990     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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