Identification of critical stacking faults in thin-film CdTe solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Yoo, Su Hyun ^a,b   Butler, Keith T ^b   Soon, Aloysius ^a   Abbas, Ali ^c   Walls, John M ^c   Walsh, Aron ^a,b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM CHLORIDE; SOLAR CELLS;

ATOMIC-RESOLUTION; CDTE SOLAR CELLS; CHEMICAL TREATMENTS; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; EXTENDED DEFECT; P TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

CADMIUM TELLURIDE;

EID: 84905962684     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4892844     Document Type: Article

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