Defect physics of the kesterite thin-film solar cell absorber Cu 2 ZnSnS4

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Shiyou ^a,b   Gong, X G ^a   Walsh, Aron ^c   Wei, Su Huai ^d  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER MATERIAL; ACCEPTOR LEVELS; DEFECT PAIRS; KESTERITES; KINETIC BARRIER; P-TYPE; POLYTYPES; QUATERNARY COMPOUND; RICH CONDITIONS; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; STOICHIOMETRIC COMPOUND; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

CHEMICAL STABILITY; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DEFECTS; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR CELLS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THIN FILM DEVICES; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

COPPER;

EID: 74549196901     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3275796     Document Type: Article

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