Indium-gallium segregation in CuInxGa1-xSe2: An Ab initio-based Monte Carlo study

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Ludwig, Christian D R ^a   Gruhn, Thomas ^a   Felser, Claudia ^a   Schilling, Tanja ^a,b   Windeln, Johannes ^c   Kratzer, Peter ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^c IBM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; CIGS SOLAR CELLS; CUINXGA1-XSE2; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; INHOMOGENEITIES; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO STUDY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; TWO PHASIS;

GALLIUM ALLOYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SOLAR CELLS;

GALLIUM;

EID: 77954544103     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.025702     Document Type: Article

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