Why can CuInSe2 be readily equilibrium-doped n -type but the wider-gap CuGaSe2 cannot?

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 5860-5862

  Zhao, Yu Jun ^a   Persson, Clas ^a,b   Lany, Stephan ^a   Zunger, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CHLORINE; FERMI LEVEL; INDIUM; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SELENIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ATOMIC SPECIES; FORMATION ENERGY; IONIZED DONORS; PINNING LEVEL;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 20444464451     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1830074     Document Type: Article

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