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Professor David W. McComb

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials

Adjunct Professor
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6750d.mccomb Website

 
 
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Location

 

Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Deitz:2018:10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547398,
author = {Deitz, JI and Paul, PK and Karki, S and Marsillac, SX and Arehart, AR and Grassman, TJ and McComb, DW},
doi = {10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547398},
pages = {3914--3917},
title = {Nanoscale Electronic Structure Characterization in CIGS with Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547398},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) within a monochromated scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) was used to provide electronic structure characterization of CuIn 1-x Ga x Se 2 (CIGS) solar cells. Two applications within this context were explored: Spatially-resolved bandgap profiling using a newly-developed and simplified analysis approach, and detection of sub-gap defect states with high energy and spatial resolution. The simplified STEM-EELS bandgap profiling method was found to closely track nominal bandgap trends calculated from compositional data, with only a small, fixed offset (0.35 eV). Sub-gap energy levels in two different CIGS samples were identified at EV + 0.43 eV and EV + 0.56 eV, 0.56 eV, exactly consistent (i.e.< 0.01 eV discrepancy) with trap states measured via conventional deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) in both cases. Furthermore, direct correlation between STEM-EELS and scanning DLTS (S-DLTS) measurements made at the same sample site providing strong confirmation that the energy levels detected via STEM-EELS are indeed the same trap levels detected via (S-)DLTS.
AU  - Deitz,JI
AU  - Paul,PK
AU  - Karki,S
AU  - Marsillac,SX
AU  - Arehart,AR
AU  - Grassman,TJ
AU  - McComb,DW
DO  - 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547398
EP  - 3917
PY  - 2018///
SP  - 3914
TI  - Nanoscale Electronic Structure Characterization in CIGS with Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547398
ER  -
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