Effect of thermal annealing for $CuInSe_2$ layers obtained by photoluminescience measurement

  • Published : 2009.06.18

Abstract

High quality $CuInSe_2$ (CIS) were grown on GaAs substrate by using the hot wall epitaxy method. The behavior of point defects in the CIS layer investigated by using photoluminescence (PL) at 10 K. Point defects originating from $V_{Cu}$, $V_{Se}$, $Cu_{int}$, and $Se_{int}$ were classified as donor or acceptor types. These PL results also led us to confirm that the p-type CIS layer had obviously converted into n-type after the Cu atmosphere treatment. Finally, we found that the In in the CIS layer did not form the native defects, because In existed in the form of stable bonds in the CIS layer.

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