Unusual capacitance emission transients in CIGS caused by large defect entropy changes

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 259-262

  Young, David L ^a   Ramanathan, Kannan ^a   Crandall, Richard S ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS-PULSE EXPERIMENTS; CAPACITANCE EMISSION; CARRIER EMISSION;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ENTROPY; FREE ENERGY; SOLAR CELLS;

CAPACITANCE;

EID: 27944481804     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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