Carrier separation at dislocation pairs in CdTe

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Li, Chen ^a,b   Wu, Yelong ^c   Pennycook, Timothy J ^a,b   Lupini, Andrew R ^a   Leonard, Donovan N ^a   Yin, Wanjian ^c   Paudel, Naba ^c   Al Jassim, Mowafak ^d   Yan, Yanfa ^c   Pennycook, Stephen J ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION-CORRECTED SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; ATOMIC CONFIGURATION; CARRIER RECOMBINATION; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; EXTRINSIC STACKING FAULT; RECOMBINATION CENTERS; SHOCKLEY PARTIAL DISLOCATIONS;

TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CADMIUM TELLURIDE;

EID: 84884250809     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.096403     Document Type: Article

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