التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Investigation of the solar cell materials Cu(In,Ga)Se2 and Cu2ZnSnS4 with muon spin spectroscopy and density-functional calculations. |
| المؤلفون: |
Vilão, R. C., Marinopoulos, A. G., Santos, D. G., Alberto, H. V., Gil, J. M., Mengyan, P. W., Kauk-Kuusik, M., Lord, J. S., Weidinger, A. |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Applied Physics; 8/7/2024, Vol. 136 Issue 5, p1-11, 11p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
HYDROGEN isotopes, SOLAR cells, POSITRONS, DENSITY functional theory, COPPER, MUONS |
| مستخلص: |
Cu(In,Ga) Se 2 (CIGS) and Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS) are potential absorber materials for solar cell applications. We report an investigation of these materials using muon spin spectroscopy. In these experiments, positive muons produced at accelerator facilities (here the ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, U.K.) are implanted into the material and come to rest at interstitial sites in the host lattice. The muon is a sensitive local probe to study materials properties on an atomistic level. An advantage of the method is that interface properties can be studied by placing the probe particles at different depths in the sample. Muonium, the positive muon with an electron, can be considered as a light isotope of hydrogen (mass ratio 1/9) with almost identical electronic properties to hydrogen. Thus, muon spectroscopy provides also information about hydrogen in the host material. The aim of the present experiment is to obtain information about the muonium/hydrogen states formed in CIGS and CZTS solar cell materials. A major goal of the experiment is to obtain information about the physical embedding process of the implanted particle into the host lattice. The present study combines experimental measurements with total energy calculations in the framework of density functional theory. We obtain the final configurations of muonium in CZTS, that we discuss in parallel to those in CIGS. This allows us to deepen our understanding of the influence of the hydrogen impurity on the properties of these materials. We also discuss the final steps in the process of muon implantation in these materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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