Non-equilibrium alloying controls optoelectronic properties in Cu2O thin films for photovoltaic absorber applications

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Zakutayev, A ^a   Stevanovic, V ^a,b   Lany, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ENERGY GAP; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THIN FILMS; ZINC;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; CANDIDATE MATERIALS; COMBINATORIAL SYNTHESIS; COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC ABSORBERS; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84925708436     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4914974     Document Type: Article

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