Low intensity conduction states in FeS2: Implications for absorption, open-circuit voltage and surface recombination

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 25, Issue 46, 2013, Pages

  Lazic P ^a   Armiento, R ^b   Herbert, F W ^a   Chakraborty, R ^a   Sun, R ^a   Chan, M K Y ^c   Hartman, K ^a   Buonassisi, T ^a   Yildiz, B ^a   Ceder, G ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION EXPERIMENTS; CONDUCTION STATE; HIGH INTENSITY; LOW-INTENSITY; SOLAR TECHNOLOGY; STRUCTURAL DISORDERS; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS; THERMALIZATION;

CONDUCTION BANDS; ENERGY GAP; EXPERIMENTS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PYRITES; SULFUR;

SURFACES;

IRON; PYRITE; SULFIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ABSORPTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONS; IRON; OPTICAL PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTORS; SULFIDES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84887000801     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/25/46/465801     Document Type: Article

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