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Chet Steinhagen1, Vahid A Akhavan, Brian W Goodfellow
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology, and Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1062, USA.
Abstract:
CuInSe₂ (CIS) nanowires were synthesized by solution-liquid-solid (SLS) growth in a high boiling solvent using bismuth nanocrystals as seeds. The nanowires tended to be slightly deficient in In and exhibited either cubic or hexagonal crystal structure, depending on the synthesis conditions. The hexagonal structure, which is not observed in bulk crystals, appears to evolve from large concentrations of twin defects. The nanowires could be compressed into a free-standing fabric or paper-like material. Photovoltaic devices (PVs) were fabricated using the nanowires as the light-absorbing layer to test their viability as a solar cell material and were found to exhibit measurable PV response.
