New layered structures of cuprous chalcogenides as thin film solar cell materials: Cu2Te and Cu2Se

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 16, 2013, Pages

  Nguyen, Manh Cuong ^a   Choi, Jin Ho ^b   Zhao, Xin ^a   Wang, Cai Zhuang ^a   Zhang, Zhenyu ^b   Ho, Kai Ming ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHMS; CU (IN ,GA)SE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; LAYERED STRUCTURES; LONG TERM STABILITY; MECHANICALLY STABLE; STRUCTURAL FORM; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

CALCULATIONS; CHALCOGENIDES; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS;

COPPER;

EID: 84885794406     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.165502     Document Type: Article

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