PREPARATION OF ORDERED VACANCY CHALCOPYRITE-TYPE CUIN3SE5 THIN-FILMS

被引:67
作者
NEGAMI, T
KOHARA, N
NISHITANI, M
WADA, T
机构
[1] Central Research Laboratories, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 612-02
来源
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS PART 2-LETTERS & EXPRESS LETTERS | 1994年 / 33卷 / 9A期
关键词
ORDERED VACANCY CHALCOPYRITE; CUIN3SE5 THIN FILM; 3-SOURCE COEVAPORATION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL BAND GAP; CONDUCTIVITY;
D O I
10.1143/JJAP.33.L1251
中图分类号
O59 [应用物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
Polycrystalline CuIn3Se5 films were successfully prepared by three-source coevaporation with controlling and shielding of the molecular beams from elemental sources. The CuIn3Se5 film exhibited good chemical homogeneity and an ordered vacancy chalcopyrite-type structure with lattice constants of a=5.742 Angstrom A and c=11.486 Angstrom A. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy showed that the CuIn3Se5 film had a columnar microstructure and each grain contained a high density of twins in {112} planes. The band-gap energy of the film was determined to be 1.23 eV from optical transmission measurements. The film showed n-type conduction and low conductivity of 3.7 x 10(-7)/Omega.cm. These characteristics of the CuIn3Se5 film are compared with those of the chalcopyrite-type CuInSe2 film.
引用
收藏
页码:L1251 / L1253
页数:3
相关论文
共 10 条
[1]   PHASE-RELATIONS IN THE TERNARY-SYSTEM CU-IN-SE [J].
BOEHNKE, UC ;
KUHN, G .
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE, 1987, 22 (05) :1635-1641
[2]  
GABOR A, 1994, 12TH P E C PHOT SOL
[3]   CRYSTAL-STRUCTURES OF 2 QUENCHED CU-IN-SE PHASES [J].
HONLE, W ;
KUHN, G ;
BOEHNKE, UC .
CRYSTAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY, 1988, 23 (10-11) :1347-1354
[4]   THE CRYSTAL-STRUCTURES OF CUINSE2 AND CUINTE2 [J].
KNIGHT, KS .
MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN, 1992, 27 (02) :161-167
[5]   CHARACTERIZATION OF MOLECULAR-BEAM DEPOSITED CUINSE2 THIN-FILMS [J].
KOHIKI, S ;
NISHITANI, M ;
NISHIKURA, K ;
NEGAMI, T ;
TERAUCHI, M ;
HIRAO, T .
THIN SOLID FILMS, 1992, 207 (1-2) :265-269
[6]   PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CUINSE2 THIN-FILMS BY MOLECULAR-BEAM DEPOSITION METHOD [J].
NISHITANI, M ;
NEGAMI, T ;
TERAUCHI, M ;
HIRAO, T .
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS PART 1-REGULAR PAPERS SHORT NOTES & REVIEW PAPERS, 1992, 31 (2A) :192-196
[7]   CUINSE2 FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS [J].
ROCKETT, A ;
BIRKMIRE, RW .
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 1991, 70 (07) :R81-R97
[8]   CHALCOPYRITE DEFECT CHALCOPYRITE HETEROJUNCTIONS ON THE BASIS OF CUINSE2 [J].
SCHMID, D ;
RUCKH, M ;
GRUNWALD, F ;
SCHOCK, HW .
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 1993, 73 (06) :2902-2909
[9]   ZNO/CDS/CUINSE2 THIN-FILM SOLAR-CELLS WITH IMPROVED PERFORMANCE [J].
STOLT, L ;
HEDSTROM, J ;
KESSLER, J ;
RUCKH, M ;
VELTHAUS, KO ;
SCHOCK, HW .
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 1993, 62 (06) :597-599
[10]   5FOLD MULTIPLY TWINNED CRYSTALLITES IN CUINSE2 [J].
WADA, T ;
NEGAMI, T ;
NISHITANI, M .
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 1994, 64 (03) :333-335