Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 14, Issue 4, 482(2021)

Rapid thermal evaporation for cadmium selenide thin-film solar cells

Kanghua LI1, Xuetian LIN1,2, Boxiang SONG1, Rokas KONDROTAS3, Chong WANG1, Yue LU1,2, Xuke YANG1, Chao CHEN1、*, and Jiang TANG1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Sargent Joint Research Center, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO), School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy (ICARE), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 3State Research Institute, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius 02300, Lithuania
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    Kanghua LI, Xuetian LIN, Boxiang SONG, Rokas KONDROTAS, Chong WANG, Yue LU, Xuke YANG, Chao CHEN, Jiang TANG. Rapid thermal evaporation for cadmium selenide thin-film solar cells[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2021, 14(4): 482

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    Paper Information

    Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Received: Mar. 22, 2021

    Accepted: Apr. 1, 2021

    Published Online: Jan. 10, 2022

    The Author Email: Chao CHEN (cchen@mail.hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-021-1217-1

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