Influence of copper excess on the absorber quality of CuInSe2

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Gtay, Levent ^a   Regesch, David ^a   Larsen, Jes K ^a   Aida, Yasuhiro ^a   Depredurand, Valérie ^a   Siebentritt, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONAL DEPENDENCE; FILM ABSORBER; QUASI-FERMI LEVEL; RECOMBINATION LOSS; SINGLE- AND POLY-CRYSTALLINE;

COPPER COMPOUNDS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

COPPER;

EID: 80055023310     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3648111     Document Type: Article

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