Understanding Individual Defects in CdTe Solar Cells: From Atomic Structure to Electrical Activity
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1 Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA 2 Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA 3 Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA 4 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA 5 Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX13PH, UK 6 SuperSTEM Laboratory, Daresbury, WA44AD, UK 7 School of Materials, University of Manchester, Manchester, M139PL, UK
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