Direct pulsed laser crystallization of nanocrystals for absorbent layers in photovoltaics: Multiphysics simulation and experiment

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 19, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Martin Y ^a   Nian, Qiong ^a   Shin, Yung ^b   Cheng, Gary J ^a,b  

^a SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK COUNTERPART; COMBINATION EFFECTS; COPPER-INDIUM-SELENIDE; LASER INTENSITIES; LASER INTERACTION; MULTIPHYSICS SIMULATIONS; PHOTOACTIVE MATERIALS; PULSED LASER CRYSTALLIZATION;

LASER ABLATION; NANOPARTICLES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84878401567     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4805039     Document Type: Article

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