Overview
- Only book on chalcopyrites available, discusses all materials aspects
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Materials Science (SSMATERIALS, volume 86)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Chalcopyrites, in particular those with a wide band gap, are fascinating materials in terms of their technological potential in the next generation of thin-film solar cells and in terms of their basic material properties. They exhibit uniquely low defect formation energies, leading to unusual doping and phase behavior and to extremely benign grain boundaries. This book collects articles on a number of those basic material properties of wide-gap chalcopyrites, comparing them to their low-gap cousins. They explore the doping of the materials, the electronic structure and the transport through interfaces and grain boundaries, the formation of the electric field in a solar cell, the mechanisms and suppression of recombination, the role of inhomogeneities, and the technological role of wide-gap chalcopyrites.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susanne Siebentritt has been working on the electronic and transport properties of materials for photovoltaics since 1989. She is working at Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin. Her current topic are the doping defects and the transport in chalcopyrite single and polycrystalline materials. On this topic she has published 35 papers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wide-Gap Chalcopyrites
Editors: Susanne Siebentritt, Uwe Rau
Series Title: Springer Series in Materials Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b105644
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-24497-4Published: 12 January 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06382-4Published: 12 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-31293-2Published: 25 February 2006
Series ISSN: 0933-033X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-2812
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 260
Number of Illustrations: 122 b/w illustrations
Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Optical and Electronic Materials, Engineering, general, Physical Chemistry