1. Cadmium Selective Etching in CdTe Solar Cells Produces Detrimental Narrow-Gap Te in Grain Boundaries
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Sudhajit Misra, Chris Ferekides, Jeffery A. Aguiar, Xiahan Sang, Raymond R. Unocic, Walajabad S. Sampath, Amit Munshi, Sophia Gardner, and Michael A. Scarpulla
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Materials science ,Energy Engineering and Power Technology ,chemistry.chemical_element ,02 engineering and technology ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,Etching (microfabrication) ,0103 physical sciences ,Materials Chemistry ,Electrochemistry ,Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,010302 applied physics ,Cadmium ,business.industry ,Electron energy loss spectroscopy ,Photovoltaic system ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Cadmium telluride photovoltaics ,chemistry ,Narrow gap ,Optoelectronics ,Grain boundary ,Crystallite ,0210 nano-technology ,business - Abstract
Recent advances in design and processing technology have made possible commercialization of polycrystalline (px)-CdTe as a photovoltaic absorber. Grain boundaries (GBs) are the most prominent struc...
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- 2020