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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 100, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.016401
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In III-V and II-VI semiconductors, certain nominally electron-donating impurities do not release electrons but instead form deep electron-traps known as DX centers. While in these compounds, such traps occur only after the introduction of foreign impurity atoms, we find from first-principles calculations that in ternary I-III-VI(2) chalcopyrites like CuInSe(2) and CuGaSe(2), DX-like centers can develop without the presence of any extrinsic impurities. These intrinsic DX centers are suggested as a cause of the difficulties to maintain high efficiencies in CuInSe(2)-based thin-film solar-cells when the band gap is increased by addition of Ga.
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