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Research Data Supporting "Characterisation of the interplay between microstructure and opto-electronic properties of Cu(In,Ga)S2 solar cells by using correlative CL-EBSD measurements"


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Authors

Hu, Yucheng 
Kusch, Gunnar 
Adeleye, Damilola 
Siebentritt, Susanne 
Oliver, Rachel 

Description

The project is intended to research the influence of microstructure of grain boundaries on the radiative recombination activities of Cu(In,Ga)S2 solar cells. Two microscopy techniques were used, cathodoluminescence (CL) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). The CL data was acquired by an Attolight Allalin 4027 Chronos dedicated CL-SEM with a 150 l/mm and 700 nm blazed grating. All CL maps were acquired with 3 kV beam energy, 1.25 nA measurement current, and 50 µm aperture size. The CL data was processed by the python library Lumispy. An indepth tutorial in how to use Lumispy can be found here: https://docs.lumispy.org/en/latest/ EBSD data was measured by a Zeiss GeminiSEM equipped with Oxford Instruments HKL Symmetry S3 detector. The software used in data acquisition is AZtec 4.0. The stepsize of maps is 30 µm and the phase for indexing is cubic zinc blende phase. The data was processed and analysed by MTEX, and open-sourced Matlab toolbox. All measurements were done at room temperature.

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The CL data is saved in the .sur format. CL data was processed and analysed by an open-sourced python library, Lumispy. Instructions in how to download and use the package can be found here: https://docs.lumispy.org/en/latest/, and the DOI of the used version is 10.5281/zenodo.7747350. Background information for the CL data is saved in the .txt format and can be opened by Notepad. The accompanying secondary electron images (SE) are stored in the .png format. The EBSD data was exported in the .ctf format. The data was processed and analysed by an open-sourced Matlab toolbox, MTEX. The instruction of MTEX can be found https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/index.

Keywords

Cathodoluminescence, Electron Backscatter Diffraction, Grain Boundary, Solar Cells

Publisher

Sponsorship
EPSRC (EP/V029231/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/R025193/1)
EPSRC (EP/R025193/1) EPSRC (EP/V029231/1)
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