Charge-carrier transport and recombination in heteroepitaxial CdTe

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Kuciauskas, Darius ^a   Farrell, Stuart ^a   Dippo, Pat ^a   Moseley, John ^a   Moutinho, Helio ^a   Li, Jian V ^a   Allende Motz, A M ^a   Kanevce, Ana ^a   Zaunbrecher, Katherine ^a   Gessert, Timothy A ^a   Levi, Dean H ^a   Metzger, Wyatt K ^a   Colegrove, Eric ^b   Sivananthan, S ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CARRIER TRANSPORT; EPITAXIAL FILMS; LASER BEAMS; LASER EXCITATION; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTONS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; VELOCITY; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

CHARGE CARRIER DYNAMICS; INTERFACE RECOMBINATION VELOCITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS; RECOMBINATION VELOCITY; SURFACE AND INTERFACES; SURFACE RECOMBINATION VELOCITIES; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY; TWO-PHOTON EXCITATIONS;

II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84907976973     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4896673     Document Type: Article

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