Dissociative diffusion mechanism in vacancy-rich materials according to mass action kinetics

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العنوان: Dissociative diffusion mechanism in vacancy-rich materials according to mass action kinetics
المؤلفون: Pradeep Haldar, James R. Lloyd, N. J. Biderman, R. Sundaramoorthy
المصدر: AIP Advances, Vol 6, Iss 5, Pp 055211-055211-18 (2016)
بيانات النشر: AIP Publishing LLC, 2016.
سنة النشر: 2016
مصطلحات موضوعية: 010302 applied physics, Inorganic chemistry, Finite difference method, Lattice diffusion coefficient, General Physics and Astronomy, Thermodynamics, 02 engineering and technology, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells, Dissociation (chemistry), lcsh:QC1-999, chemistry.chemical_compound, Condensed Matter::Materials Science, chemistry, Impurity, Vacancy defect, Interstitial defect, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters, CZTS, 0210 nano-technology, lcsh:Physics
الوصف: Two sets of diffusion-reaction numerical simulations using a finite difference method (FDM) were conducted to investigate fast impurity diffusion via interstitial sites in vacancy-rich materials such as Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) and Cu2ZnSn(S, Se)4 (CZTSSe or CZTS) via the dissociative diffusion mechanism where the interstitial diffuser ultimately reacts with a vacancy to produce a substitutional. The first set of simulations extends the standard interstitial-limited dissociative diffusion theory to vacancy-rich material conditions where vacancies are annihilated in large amounts, introducing non-equilibrium vacancy concentration profiles. The second simulation set explores the vacancy-limited dissociative diffusion where impurity incorporation increases the equilibrium vacancy concentration. In addition to diffusion profiles of varying concentrations and shapes that were obtained in all simulations, some of the profiles can be fitted with the constant- and limited-source solutions of Fick’s second law despite the non-equilibrium condition induced by the interstitial-vacancy reaction. The first set of simulations reveals that the dissociative diffusion coefficient in vacancy-rich materials is inversely proportional to the initial vacancy concentration. In the second set of numerical simulations, impurity-induced changes in the vacancy concentration lead to distinctive diffusion profile shapes. The simulation results are also compared with published data of impurity diffusion in CIGS. According to the characteristic properties of diffusion profiles from the two set of simulations, experimental detection of the dissociative diffusion mechanism in vacancy-rich materials may be possible.
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2158-3226
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::6d3ed017876aa5ade9be07a2c16d26e9
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