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Ion Beam Induced Current Measurements of Solar Cells with Helium Ion Microscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Alex Belianinov
Affiliation:
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN, 37831 The Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
Songkil Kim
Affiliation:
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN, 37831 The Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
Cannon Buechley
Affiliation:
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN, 37831
Matthew Burch
Affiliation:
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN, 37831 The Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
Olga Ovchinnikova
Affiliation:
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN, 37831 The Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
Stephen Jesse
Affiliation:
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN, 37831 The Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831

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[6] This research was supported by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS), which is sponsored by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy (S.K., C.B., M.B., O.O.), and by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U. S. Department of Energy (A.B., S.J.).Google Scholar