Criteria for improving the properties of ZnGeAs2 solar cells

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 906-917

  Peshek, Timothy J ^a,b,c   Zhang, Lei ^a   Singh, Rakesh K ^a   Tang, Zhizhong ^a   Vahidi, Mahmoud ^a   To, Bobby ^b   Coutts, Timothy J ^b   Gessert, Timothy A ^b   Newman, Nathan ^a   Van Schilfgaarde, Mark ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EQED   (United States)

Author keywords

chalcopyrites; earth abundant; photovoltaics; pulsed laser deposition; solar cell; ZnGeAs2

Indexed keywords

BACKSIDE ILLUMINATION; BOROSILICATE GLASS SUBSTRATES; CHALCOPYRITES; EARTH-ABUNDANT; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POTENTIAL UTILITY; SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE; ZNGEAS2;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; BOROSILICATE GLASS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84881242508     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2177     Document Type: Article

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