Measurement of the sodium concentration in CIGS solar cells via laser induced breakdown spectroscopy

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1742-1744

  Kowalczyk, Jeremy M D ^a   Perkins, Jeffrey ^a   Kaneshiro, Jess ^a   Gaillard, Nicolas ^a   Chang, Yuancheng ^a   DeAngelis, Alexander ^a   Mallory, Stewart A ^a   Bates, David ^a   Miller, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; ATOMIC PERCENT; CIGS SOLAR CELLS; COMPOSITION MEASUREMENTS; DEPOSITION PROCESS; DESTRUCTIVE METHODS; HIGH EFFICIENCY DEVICES; LOCAL THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM; NATURAL ENERGY; PEAK HEIGHT; RELATIVE CONCENTRATION; SODIUM FLUORIDE; TITANIUM FOILS; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TITANIUM;

SODIUM;

EID: 78650148542     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5615854     Document Type: Conference Paper

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