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Annihilation of structural defects in chalcogenide absorber films for high-efficiency solar cells
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Defects rapidly annihilate near stoichiometric composition.
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- Authors
- Mainz, R., Simsek Sanli, E., Stange, H., Azulay, D., Brunken, S., Greiner, D., Hajaj, S., Heinemann, M. D., Kaufmann, C. A., Klaus, M., Ramasse, Q. M., Rodriguez-Alvarez, H., Weber, A., Balberg, I., Millo, O., van Aken, P. A., & Abou-Ras, D.
- Affiliations
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (DE)
- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
- Technische Universität Berlin (DE)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Daresbury Laboratory (GB)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH
- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Mainz, Roland
- ORCID
- Venue
- Energy & Environmental Science
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- Published
- 2016
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1818-1827
- ISSN
- 1754-5692 (ISSN-L)
- 1754-5706
- OpenAlex
- W2337013690
- Cited by
- 45
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 5
- FWCI
- 3.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- Energy & Environmental Science (publishedVersion)
- DepositOnce (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- HZB Repository (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH (HZB)) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Technische Universität Berlin – Universitätsbibliothek
- Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Helmholtz Association (HVI-520)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Phase-change materials and chalcogenides
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
- Keywords
- structural defects, defect annihilation, stoichiometric composition, solar cell efficiency, thin-film solar cells
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