Electron backscatter diffraction and photoluminescence of sputtered CdTe thin films

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 001327-001332

  Nowell, M M ^a,b   Scarpulla, M A ^b   Compaan, A D ^c   Liu, X ^c,d   Paudel, N R ^c   Kwon, Dohyoung ^c   Wieland, K A ^c  

^a EDAX TSL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDTE; DEPOSITION PRESSURES; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRON BACK SCATTER DIFFRACTION; FILM MICROSTRUCTURES; GRAIN BOUNDARY STRUCTURE; GRAIN SIZE; HIGH ANGLE GRAIN BOUNDARIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; TWIN BOUNDARIES;

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

EID: 84861072949     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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