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Electronic Properties of Cuprous-Chloride and Cuprous-Bromide
… all-electron energy band calculation of cuprous chloride using ab initio Hartree-Fock theory with nonlocal exchange is presented. Both polarization and relaxation corrections are included, and the resulting band structure is compared with the available optical data. Contrary to previous …
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Electronic properties of cuprous chloride and cuprous bromide
… all-electron energy band calculation of cuprous chloride using ab initio Hartree-Fock theory with nonlocal exchange is presented. Both polarization and relaxation corrections are included, and the resulting band structure is compared with the available optical data. Contrary to previous …
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Resistance switching of electrodeposited cuprous oxide
… switching behavior of electrodeposited cuprous oxide (Cu<sub>2</sub>O) thin films in Au/Cu<sub>2</sub>O/top electrode (Pt, Au-Pd, Al) cells was studied. After an initial FORMING process, the fabricated cells show reversible switching between a low resistance state (16.6 Ω) and a high …
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Lifetimes of Excitons in Cuprous Oxide
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Relaxation kinetics of excitons in cuprous oxide
Cuprous oxide is a thoroughly s~udied semiconductor with long-lived, mobile excitons. The kinetic energy distribution of the excitons is reproduced in phonon-assisted luminescence spectra. When non-equilibrium excitons are produced by a laser pulse, nanosecond-time-resolved luminescence reveals the …
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Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in cuprous oxide
Free excitons provide the only experimental system other than helium in which the behavior of particles with mass is known to follow Bose-Einstein statistics. I present experimental observations of the kinetic energy distribution of excitons in the direct-gap semiconductor Cu$\sb2$O, both the …
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Electrochemical self-assembly of copper/cuprous oxide layered nanostructures
<p>"Layered nanostructures of copper metal and cuprous oxide are electrodeposited from alkaline solutions of Cu(II) lactate at room temperature. The electrode potential oscillates spontaneously during constant-current deposition. The potential oscillations are attributed to the formation and …
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Excitons in cuprous oxide: high mobilities and strain confinement
… properties of excitons in the semiconductor cuprous oxide (CU0) at 2liquid helium temperatures. The lowest lying member of the yellow exciton series, the paraexciton, is the main focus of these studies. The technique cf time-resolved luminescence imaging was used to measure the transport …
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Defect Engineering in Cuprous Oxide (Cu₂O) Solar Cells
This thesis is focused on the development of a cuprous oxide (Cu₂O) thin-film (TF) solar cell that is fabricated by manufacturing-friendly methods such as electro-deposition, sputtering and atomic layer deposition. Due to its bandgap of close to 2 eV, it has the potential of being applied as top …
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Investigation of doped cuprous halides for photovoltaic and display applications
… and optoelectronic characterisation of the doped cuprous halides (CuX) with high UV/blue emission properties and the light harvesting in the CuBr/Si based heterojunction photovoltaic (PV) cells. Since cuprous halides are short wavelength emitters with high excitonic binding energies, growth of …
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Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in uniaxially stressed cuprous oxide
Excitons in Cu$\sb2$O have been demonstrated to be a nearly ideal gas of bosons, providing a unique system for studying Bose-Einstein statistics and Bose-Einstein Condensation of an ideal gas in the laboratory. In this study, I have applied uniaxial stress to optimize the conditions for a …
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Defect engineering of cuprous oxide thin-films for photovoltaic applications
… them compatible with terawatts-level deployment. Cuprous oxide (Cu₂O) is an earthabundant semiconductor with desirable properties for light-absorbing layers. However, power conversion efficiencies of solar cells comprising this absorber material remain significantly below the theoretical limit. In …
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The Effect of Grain Boundaries on The Electrical Conductivity of Cuprous-Oxide
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High frequency studies of the organic superconductor kappa-bis-ethylenedithio cuprous dicyanonitrobromide
We report measurements of the rf vortex penetration depth $\lambda$(B) of the organic compound, $\kappa$-ET$\sb2$Cu$\lbrack$N(CN)$\sb2\rbrack$Br as a function of temperature, magnetic field, and the angle made by the applied magnetic field with the ac-planes of the crystal. For$\rm\vec …
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A rotating ring-disk study of interactions among SPS, cuprous ions, and oxygen
<p>The most common additives in copper plating baths for deep via filling are chloride, polyethylene glycol (PEG), a suppressor, and bis-(3-sulfopropyl)-disulfide (SPS), an accelerant. The copper in acid plating baths is provided by a Cu (II) salt. Cu (I) may be present as well and it influenced …
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Soft x-ray near edge spectroscopy of cuprous oxide and silicon-germanium alloys
High resolution soft x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectra have been obtained for CU20 and for SiGe1-x semiconductor alloys, xas a function of composition x, using the methods of partial electron yield and thin film absorption. The shapes of the near edge features provide a unique …
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Exploiting polar interfaces for photocatalytic water splitting: application to the anatase-cuprous oxide heterojunction
… compensation mechanisms in the anatase (TiO2) / cuprous oxide (Cu2O) heterojunction, a system which has recently been realized in experiment. Due to its low valence band edge, anatase has a good oxidation potential; by contrast cuprous oxide has a good reduction potential due to its high …
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The Precise Determination of Equilibrium Constants by Constant Current Coulometry. The Copper - Cuprous - Cupric System
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Elucidating efficiency losses in cuprous oxide (Cu₂O) photovoltaics and identifying strategies for efficiency improvement
… and characterized a series of thin-film cuprous oxide (Cu₂O) photovoltaic devices. I constructed several different device designs, using sputtered and electrochemically deposited Cu₂O. Characterization was done using XRD, SEM, optical spectroscopy, quantum efficiency, current-voltage, and …
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Developing cuprous oxide thin film characterization techniques to illuminate efficiency-limiting mechanisms in photovoltaic applications
… semiconductors for solar conversion such as cuprous oxide (Cu₂O). Poor solar energy conversion efficiency (<2%) has hindered the development of this material, yet it is not well understood what is preventing the material from approaching the idealized maximum efficiency of 20%. The present …
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