Grain-boundary-enhanced carrier collection in CdTe solar cells

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 15, 2014, Pages

  Li, Chen ^a,b   Wu, Yelong ^c   Poplawsky, Jonathan ^b,d   Pennycook, Timothy J ^e,f   Paudel, Naba ^c   Yin, Wanjian ^c   Haigh, Sarah J ^g   Oxley, Mark P ^a,b   Lupini, Andrew R ^b   Al Jassim, Mowafak ^h   Pennycook, Stephen J ^d   Yan, Yanfa ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^d University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f SUPERSTEM LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^h NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABERRATION-CORRECTED SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; CARRIER COLLECTION; CARRIER COLLECTION EFFICIENCIES; CDTE SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES THEORY; HIGH COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; RECOMBINATION CENTERS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84898996346     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.156103     Document Type: Article

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