Structure and electronic properties of grain boundaries in earth-abundant photovoltaic absorber Cu2ZnSnSe4

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 8613-8619

  Li, Junwen ^a   Mitzi, David B ^b   Shenoy, Vivek B ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CZTS; grain boundaries; solar cells

Indexed keywords

CZTS; DEFECT STATE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HOLE CARRIERS; LOCALIZED DEFECTS; LOWER DENSITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC ABSORBERS;

CALCULATIONS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DEFECT DENSITY; DEFECTS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

EID: 81855169719     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203230g     Document Type: Article

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