{"id":478,"date":"2015-12-07T12:06:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectlab.engineering.asu.edu\/?p=478"},"modified":"2015-12-07T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:06:25","slug":"in-situ-x-ray-microscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/2015\/12\/in-situ-x-ray-microscopy\/","title":{"rendered":"In-situ X-ray Microscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our goal is to address the following industrially relevant effects :<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<li>(1) Operando electromigration of species of species to grain boundaries, dislocations and interfaces<\/li>\n<li>(2) Metastable defects observed in CIGS after illumination and\/or applied bias voltage<\/li>\n<li>(3) Nanoscale phase segregation as a function of growth conditions<\/li>\n<li>(4) Phase decomposition and interlayer diffusion as a function of kinetics and thermodynamics of annealing (time, temperature, atmosphere, and constituent element overpressures)<\/li>\n<li>(5) Correlate the impacts of these effects on solar cell conversion efficiency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/2013\/09\/In-situ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-139 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/2013\/09\/In-situ.jpg\" alt=\"In-situ X-ray Microscopy\" width=\"334\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>Understanding the effects of elemental and charge migration under operating conditions will allow the CIGS community to modify and\/or add processing steps that could claim the open circuit voltages allowing the cells to harvest more energy from each absorbed photon and position this technology closer to the 6\u00a2\/kWh SunShot initiative goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-2\">Our goal is to address the following industrially relevant effects : (1) Operando electromigration of species of species to grain boundaries, dislocations and interfaces (2) Metastable defects observed in CIGS after illumination and\/or applied bias voltage (3) Nanoscale phase segregation as a function of growth conditions (4) Phase decomposition and interlayer diffusion as a function&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}