Evidence for a neutral grain-boundary barrier in chalcopyrites

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Siebentritt, Susanne ^a,b   Sadewasser, Sascha ^a   Wimmer, Mark ^a   Leendertz, Caspar ^a   Eisenbarth, Tobias ^a   Lux Steiner, Martha Ch ^a,b  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; HALL EFFECT; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CARRIER TRANSPORT; CHALCOPYRITES; HALL MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE POTENTIAL;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

EID: 33749346332     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.146601     Document Type: Article

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