Kesterite successes, ongoing work, and challenges: A perspective from vacuum deposition

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue PART 2, 2012, Pages

  Repins, Ingrid L ^a   Romero, Manuel J ^a   Li, Jian V ^a   Wei, Su Huai ^a   Kuciauskas, Darius ^a   Jiang, Chun Sheng ^a   Beall, Carolyn ^a   DeHart, Clay ^a   Mann, Jonathan ^a   Hsu, Wan Ching ^b   Teeter, Glenn ^a   Goodrich, Al ^a   Noufi, Rommel ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS); earth; kesterite; photovoltaic; thin film

Indexed keywords

DEVICE DEVELOPMENT; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; FILM CHARACTERISTICS; FREE CARRIER DENSITY; KESTERITES; PHOTOVOLTAIC;

EARTH (PLANET); THIN FILMS;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

EID: 84891324060     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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