Investigation of compositional inhomogeneities in complex polycrystalline Cu (In,Ga) Se2 layers for solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 26, 2009, Pages

  Fontan X ^a   Izquierdo Roca, V ^a   Calvo Barrio, L ^a   Prez Rodriguez A ^a,b   Morante, J R ^a,b   Guettler, Dominik ^c   Eicke, A ^d   Tiwari, A N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d ZENTRUM FÜR SONNENENERGIE UND WASSERSTOFF FORSCHUNG BADEN WÜRTTEMBERG ZSW   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION ANALYSIS; CU(IN , GA)SE; DEPTH-RESOLVED; DEPTH-RESOLVED ANALYSIS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; INHOMOGENEITIES; LAYER THICKNESS; NEUTRAL MASS; ORDERED VACANCY COMPOUND; POLYCRYSTALLINE; QUANTITATIVE LEVEL; RAMAN MEASUREMENTS; RAMAN MODES; RAMAN SCATTERING MEASUREMENTS;

GALLIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 73649119209     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3280049     Document Type: Article

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