Crystal and electronic structures of Cu xS solar cell absorbers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Qiang ^a   Huang, Bing ^a   Zhao, Yufeng ^a   Yan, Yanfa ^a   Noufi, Rommel ^a   Wei, Su Huai ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT BAND GAP; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; SOLAR CELL ABSORBERS; STABLE STRUCTURES;

ENERGY GAP;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 84863122689     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3682503     Document Type: Article

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