Microreactor chemical bath deposition of laterally graded Cd 1-xZnxS thin films: A route to high-throughput optimization for photovoltaic buffer layers

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 297-306

  McPeak, Kevin M ^a,g   Opasanont, Borirak ^a   Shibata, Tomohiro ^b,c   Ko, Dong Kyun ^d,h   Becker, Matthew A ^e   Chattopadhyay, Soma ^b,c   Bui, Holt P ^f   Beebe, Thomas P ^f   Bunker, Bruce A ^e   Murray, Christopher B ^d   Baxter, Jason B ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

cadmium zinc sulfide; CdZnS; chemical bath deposition; microreactor; photovoltaic; zinc oxysulfide

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CONTENT; BATH COMPOSITIONS; BLUE LIGHT; CDS; CDZNS; CHEMICAL-BATH DEPOSITION; CONTINUOUS FLOW MICROREACTORS; DEPOSITED FILMS; DEPOSITION CONDITIONS; DEPOSITION METHODS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; MICRO-REACTOR; NANOCRYSTALLINE PHASE; NANOCRYSTALLINES; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC; RAPID IDENTIFICATION; S THIN FILMS; SELENIDES; THIN FILM PHOTOVOLTAICS;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; BUFFER LAYERS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; DEPOSITS; ENERGY GAP; STOICHIOMETRY; THIN FILMS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

VAPOR DEPOSITION;

EID: 84873620723     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm3023506     Document Type: Article

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