Novel single-crystalline-like germanium thin films on flexible, inexpensive substrates: Influence of architecture and film thickness

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 003385-003389

  Selvamanickam, V ^a   Sambandam, S ^b   Sundaram, A ^a   Wang, R ^a   Majkic, G ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b SUPERPOWER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTIONAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GERMANIUM FILMS; HIGH DENSITY; IBAD TEMPLATE; INTERMEDIATE BUFFERS; INTERMEDIATE LAYERS; METAL SUBSTRATE; MGO; MIS-ORIENTATION; MOBILITY VALUE; OUT-OF-PLANE TEXTURES; SRTIO;

ARCHITECTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GERMANIUM; HALL MOBILITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; STRONTIUM TITANATES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WAVEGUIDES;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84861075465     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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