Resonant Raman scattering based approaches for the quantitative assessment of nanometric ZnMgO layers in high efficiency chalcogenide solar cells

Abstract This work reports a detailed resonant Raman scattering analysis of ZnMgO solid solution nanometric layers that are being developed for high efficiency chalcogenide solar cells. This includes layers with thicknesses below 100 nm and compositions corresponding to Zn/(Zn + Mg) content rations...

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Autores principales: Maxim Guc, Dimitrios Hariskos, Lorenzo Calvo-Barrio, Philip Jackson, Florian Oliva, Paul Pistor, Alejandro Perez-Rodriguez, Victor Izquierdo-Roca
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/924a9abb0d144e41a47397d9ccd687ba
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Sumario:Abstract This work reports a detailed resonant Raman scattering analysis of ZnMgO solid solution nanometric layers that are being developed for high efficiency chalcogenide solar cells. This includes layers with thicknesses below 100 nm and compositions corresponding to Zn/(Zn + Mg) content rations in the range between 0% and 30%. The vibrational characterization of the layers grown with different compositions and thicknesses has allowed deepening in the knowledge of the sensitivity of the different Raman spectral features on the characteristics of the layers, corroborating the viability of resonant Raman scattering based techniques for their non-destructive quantitative assessment. This has included a deeper analysis of different experimental approaches for the quantitative assessment of the layer thickness, based on (a) the analysis of the intensity of the ZnMgO main Raman peak; (b) the evaluation of the changes of the intensity of the main Raman peak from the subjacent layer located below the ZnMgO one; and (c) the study of the changes in the relative intensity of the first to second/third order ZnMgO peaks. In all these cases, the implications related to the presence of quantum confinement effects in the nanocrystalline layers grown with different thicknesses have been discussed and evaluated.