Relationship between Cu2ZnSnS4 quasi donor-acceptor pair density and solar cell efficiency

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 19, 2013, Pages

  Gershon, Talia ^a   Shin, Byungha ^a   Gokmen, Tayfun ^a   Lu, Siyuan ^a   Bojarczuk, Nestor ^a   Guha, Supratik ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DONOR-ACCEPTOR PAIRS; FILL FACTOR; METAL COMPOSITION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES;

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; ZINC;

COPPER;

EID: 84889861086     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4829920     Document Type: Article

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