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In this paper, the authors demonstrate a tunneling spectroscopic technique to determine energy band gaps of the CuInSe2 thin-film solar cell surfaces. The I-V characteristics are measured with STM in ambient air. Using the well-known theory of tunneling spectroscopy, the normalized differential conductivity corresponding to surface density of states is both evaluated from the measured I-V characteristics and simulated with help of two gap models with and without additional localised state tails in the gap. The poorly defined gap edges are explained by additional localised states near the top of the valence band and the bottom of the conduction band. These additional localised states could be true surface defect states or originate from deep atomic layers underneath the surfaces due to band bending
Published in:
Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 1994., Conference Record of the Twenty Fourth. IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference - 1994, 1994 IEEE First World Conference on
(Volume:1
)
Date of Conference: 5-9 Dec 1994
- Page(s):
- 299 - 302 vol.1
- Meeting Date :
- 05 Dec 1994-09 Dec 1994
- Print ISBN:
- 0-7803-1460-3
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 5169245
- Conference Location :
- Waikoloa, HI
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/WCPEC.1994.519867
- Product Type:
- Conference Publications
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