CdTe and CuInSe2 based modules have made the transition from pilot scale development to large manufacturing facilities. Production of CdTe modules has validated the cost reduction associated with the high throughput manufacturing process in plants exceeding 100 MW. Similar to development of crystalline Si modules, the next challenges are to improve the performance and processing of the modules....

A complete electrical characterisation of thin film solar cells necessitates the analysis of capacitance vs. voltage measurements at different frequencies and illumination intensities. We developed a fully numerical device simulation tool for polycrystalline CdTe and CulnSe, solar cells, which carries out frequency domain calculations. Numerical simulations of /(V) and C(V) characteristics of C...

We have synthesized high quality type-II CdTe/CdSe near infrared quantum dots using successive ion layer adsorption and reaction chemistry. Transmission electron microscopy reveals that CdTe/CdSe can be synthesized layer by layer yielding quantum dots of narrow size distribution. Excitation and photoluminescence spectra reveal discrete type-II transitions, which correspond to energy lower that ...

3-Mercaptopropyl acid-stabilized CdTe nanoparticles synthesized in aqueous solution are effectively bound to a biomacromolecule, papain, via electrostatic interaction. The conjugation between the nanoparticles and the papain is demonstrated by UV-Vis absorption, photoluminescence spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and fluorescence micrographs. The biological activity of papain is m...

We have measured the lattice distortion around As (acceptor) and Br (donor) in CdTe with fluorescence detected X-ray absorption spectroscopy. We could experimentally verify the lattice relaxation with a bond length reduction of 8% around the As atom as inferred indirectly from ab initio calculations of the electric field gradient performed with the WIEN97 package in comparison with the measured...

Tellurium adsorption on clean (112) Si surfaces obey a second order kinetic law. The adsorbed Te ad-atoms are highly immobile. Activation energies of adsorption and desorption were measured by isothermal desorption rates. A surface bond energy model was used to calculate the total energy for Te chemisorption on (111) terraces. This model yields a Si-Te bond energy of about 3.46 eV. As-Te bond e...

We have investigated the electrical properties of the hetero structures deposited on conductive glass. The hetero structures made with type II CdTe quantum dots present interesting peculiarities. Low frequency (20Hz ≤ f≤ 200kHz; f= 8804) dielectric properties of type II CdTe, type II CdTe blended with Single-wall carbon nano tubes SWNTs functionalized with poly (ethylene glycol ) hetero junctio...

The effect of grain boundaries (GBs), in particular twin boundaries (TBs), on CdTe polycrystalline thin films is studied by conductive atomic force microscopy (C-AFM), electron-beam-induced current (EBIC), scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM), electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). Four types of CdTe grains with various densities of {11...

An ultrasensitive electrochemiluminescent immunoassay (ECLIA) for aflatoxins M1 (ATM1) in milk using magnetic Fe3O4-graphene oxides (Fe-GO) as the absorbent and antibody-labeled cadmium telluride quantum dots (CdTe QDs) as the signal tag is presented. Firstly, Fe3O4 nanoparticles were immobilized on GO to fabricate the magnetic nanocomposites, which were used as absorbent to ATM1. Secondly, afl...

The previous structure determination of the title compound, dibarium tritelluridocadmate, was based on powder X-ray diffraction data [Wang & DiSalvo (1999 ▶). J. Solid State Chem.148, 464-467]. In the current redetermination from single-crystal X-ray data, all atoms were refined with anisotropic displacement parameters. The previous structure report is generally confirmed, but with some differe...