Photocapacitance Spectroscopy in Copper Indium Diselenide Alloys

Springer Series in Materials Science

Volumn 86, Issue , 2006, Pages 69-90

  Cohen, J D ^a   Heath, J T ^b   Shafarman, W N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b LINFIELD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous Silicon; Deep Defect; Depletion Region; Photovoltaic Device; Urbach Energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85072862059     PISSN: 0933033X     EISSN: 21962812     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-31293-5_5     Document Type: Chapter

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