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Professor Douglas Halliday's Outputs (96)

Photoluminescence of gold, copper and niobium as a function of temperature (2009)
Journal Article
Armstrong, H., Halliday, D. P., & Hampshire, D. P. (2009). Photoluminescence of gold, copper and niobium as a function of temperature. Journal of Luminescence, 129(12), 1610-1614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2009.04.022

A specially constructed instrument for measuring the low intensity photoluminescence emission spectra of metals is described. It uses low luminescence optical components and dedicated sample mounting techniques. Room temperature measurements agree cl... Read More about Photoluminescence of gold, copper and niobium as a function of temperature.

Photoluminescence study of polycrystalline photovoltaic CdS thin film layers grown by close-spaced sublimation and chemical bath deposition (2009)
Journal Article
Abken, A. E., Halliday, D., & Durose, K. (2009). Photoluminescence study of polycrystalline photovoltaic CdS thin film layers grown by close-spaced sublimation and chemical bath deposition. Journal of Applied Physics, 105(6), Article 064515. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3074504

Photoluminescence (PL) measurements were used to study the effect of postdeposition treatments by annealing and CdCl2 activation on polycrystalline CdS layer grown by close-spaced sublimation (CSS) and chemical bath deposition (CBD). CdS films were e... Read More about Photoluminescence study of polycrystalline photovoltaic CdS thin film layers grown by close-spaced sublimation and chemical bath deposition.

Development of low temperature approaches to device quality CdS: A modified geometry for solution growth of thin films and their characterisation (2007)
Journal Article
Archbold, M., Halliday, D., Durose, K., Hase, T., Boyle, D., Mazzamuto, S., …Bosio, A. (2007). Development of low temperature approaches to device quality CdS: A modified geometry for solution growth of thin films and their characterisation. Thin Solid Films, 515(5), 2954-2957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2006.09.005

Cadmium sulphide thin films have been grown using a modified chemical bath deposition method with four innovative features: i) ethylenediamine was used as the complexing agent, enabling the use of low cadmium concentrations, ii) a rectangular bath ge... Read More about Development of low temperature approaches to device quality CdS: A modified geometry for solution growth of thin films and their characterisation.

In situ oxygen incorporation and related issues in CdTe/CdS photovoltaic devices (2006)
Journal Article
Emziane, M., Durose, K., Halliday, D., Bosio, A., & Romeo, N. (2006). In situ oxygen incorporation and related issues in CdTe/CdS photovoltaic devices. Journal of Applied Physics, 100(1), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2209788

CdTe/CdS/SnO2/ITO:F solar cell devices were investigated using quantitative secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) depth profiling. They were grown on sapphire substrates and potentially active impurity species were analyzed. The SIMS data were calib... Read More about In situ oxygen incorporation and related issues in CdTe/CdS photovoltaic devices.

SIMS depth profiling of CdTe-based solar cells grown on sapphire substrates. (2006)
Journal Article
Emziane, M., Durose, K., Halliday, D., Romeo, N., & Bosio, A. (2006). SIMS depth profiling of CdTe-based solar cells grown on sapphire substrates. Thin Solid Films, 511-512, 66-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2005.11.094

CdTe/CdS/TCO solar cell structures were grown on sapphire substrates especially to investigate the impurity distributions in them. The study was performed using quantitative secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) depth profiling, from the CdTe back s... Read More about SIMS depth profiling of CdTe-based solar cells grown on sapphire substrates..

Efficiency improvement in thin-film solar cell devices with oxygen-containing absorber layer (2005)
Journal Article
Emziane, M., Durose, K., Halliday, D., Bosio, A., & Romeo, N. (2005). Efficiency improvement in thin-film solar cell devices with oxygen-containing absorber layer. Applied Physics Letters, 87(26), Article 261901. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2152108

The CdTe∕CdSCdTe∕CdSsolar cell devices were grown using a dry process consisting of sputtering for the transparent conducting oxide and CdS window layers, and close-space sublimation for CdTe absorber layer. These devices were back contacted using Mo... Read More about Efficiency improvement in thin-film solar cell devices with oxygen-containing absorber layer.

Does CdTe deposition affect the impurity profile in sputtered CdS window layers? (2005)
Book Chapter
Emziane, M., Durose, K., Halliday, D., Bosio, A., & Romeo, N. (2005). Does CdTe deposition affect the impurity profile in sputtered CdS window layers?. In W. Gessert, T. Niki, S. Siebentritt, & S. Shafarman (Eds.), Thin-Film Compound Semiconductor Photovoltaics (411-416)

We report a multi-element study of impurities in CdS window layers by dynamic and quantitative SIMS. Two CdS/TCO/glass samples, grown separately using nominally the same conditions, were considered. In2O3:F grown on soda lime glass was used as TCO fo... Read More about Does CdTe deposition affect the impurity profile in sputtered CdS window layers?.

Role of substrate and transparent conducting oxide in impurity evolvement in polycrystalline thin-film devices (2005)
Journal Article
Emziane, M., Durose, K., Halliday, D., Bosio, A., & Romeo, N. (2005). Role of substrate and transparent conducting oxide in impurity evolvement in polycrystalline thin-film devices. Applied Physics Letters, 87(25), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2149990

A comparison of as-grown and processed CdTe/CdS solar cell structures deposited on sapphire substrate has been undertaken with those grown on glass. The device structures were depth-profiled using quantitative secondary ion mass spectrometry. It was... Read More about Role of substrate and transparent conducting oxide in impurity evolvement in polycrystalline thin-film devices.

The distribution of impurities in the interfaces and window layers of thin-film solar cells (2005)
Journal Article
Emziane, M., Durose, K., Halliday, D., Romeo, N., & Bosio, A. (2005). The distribution of impurities in the interfaces and window layers of thin-film solar cells. Journal of Applied Physics, 97(11), Article 114910. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1921344

We report a systematic multielement study of impurities in CdS window layers by dynamic and quantitative secondary-ion-mass spectrometry (SIMS) with high depth resolution. The study was carried out on CdTe/CdS solar cell structures, with the glass su... Read More about The distribution of impurities in the interfaces and window layers of thin-film solar cells.

A combined SIMS and ICPMS investigation of the origin and distribution of potentially electrically active impurities in CdTe/CdS solar cell structures (2005)
Journal Article
Emziane, M., Durose, K., Romeo, N., Bosio, A., & Halliday, D. (2005). A combined SIMS and ICPMS investigation of the origin and distribution of potentially electrically active impurities in CdTe/CdS solar cell structures. Semiconductor Science and Technology, 20(5), 434-442. https://doi.org/10.1088/0268-1242/20/5/019

Quantitative, dynamic secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) combined with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS) was used to study the origin and distribution of impurities in CdTe/CdS/In2O3:F/glass solar cell structures. Particular em... Read More about A combined SIMS and ICPMS investigation of the origin and distribution of potentially electrically active impurities in CdTe/CdS solar cell structures.

Impurity analysis of CdCl₂ used for thermal activation of CdTe-based solar cells (2004)
Journal Article
Emziane, M., Ottley, C., Durose, K., & Halliday, D. (2004). Impurity analysis of CdCl₂ used for thermal activation of CdTe-based solar cells. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 37(21), 2962-2965. https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/37/21/004

We present an impurity analysis of cadmium chloride (CdCl2) using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Six batches of CdCl2 with different nominal purity ranging from 99.999% to 95% were analysed. Each batch turned out to be different in ter... Read More about Impurity analysis of CdCl₂ used for thermal activation of CdTe-based solar cells.