The role of sodium as a surfactant and suppressor of non-radiative recombination at internal surfaces in Cu2ZnSnS4

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Gershon, Talia ^a   Shin, Byungha ^b   Bojarczuk, Nestor ^a   Hopstaken, Marinus ^a   Mitzi, David B ^a   Guha, Supratik ^a  

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

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cu2znsns4 (CZTS); Grain size; Microstructures; Photoluminescence; Sodium

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

DONOR-ACCEPTOR PAIRS; GRAIN SIZE; MICROSTRUCTURAL CHANGES; NON-RADIATIVE RECOMBINATIONS; NONRADIATIVE DECAYS; NONRADIATIVE DEFECTS; SURFACTANT EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT PHOTOLUMINESCENCES;

SODIUM;

EID: 84921542453     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201400849     Document Type: Article

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