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Microcharacterization of CuInSe2 Grown by Coevaporation and Selenization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

M. H. Bode ,
M. M. Al-Jassim ,
J. Tuttle  and
D. Albin
M. H. Bode
Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401
M. M. Al-Jassim
Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401
J. Tuttle
Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401
D. Albin
Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401
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Abstract

Thin films of CuInSe2, grown by coevaporation or by selenization of a Cu-In precursor, were analyzed in a scanning transmission electron microscope. While the coevaporated film shows clear evidence of second phases (Cu2Se) around the individual grains, no second phases could be found in the selenized material. Structural characterization also showed the presence of two ordered phases in the coevaporated films, the ordered-vacancy compound CuIn2Se3.5, and a CuPt-ordered phase of CuInSe2.

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