Characterization of 19.9%-efficient CIGS absorbers

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Repins, Ingrid ^a   Contreras, Miguel ^a   Romero, Manuel ^a   Yan, Yanfa ^a   Metzger, Wyatt ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Johnston, Steve ^a   Egaas, Brian ^a   Dehart, Clay ^a   Scharf, John ^a   McCandless, Brian E ^b   Noufi, Rommel ^c  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Institute for Energy Conversion   (United States)

^c Solopower   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; CUINGASE2; CURRENT VOLTAGE; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; PAPER DOCUMENTS; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; TOTAL-AREA EFFICIENCY;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84879726630     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2008.4922628     Document Type: Conference Paper

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