Grain-boundary physics in polycrystalline CuInSe2 revisited: Experiment and theory

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Yan, Yanfa ^a   Noufi, R ^a   Al Jassim, M M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

ATOMIC STRUCTURE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES MODELING; HOLE BARRIERS;

POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 33646786054     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.205501     Document Type: Article

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