Multimodal X-ray imaging of grain-level properties and performance in a polycrystalline solar cell

A multimodal in situ nanofocused X-ray microscopy approach is demonstrated and applied to a working polycrystalline thin film solar cell that revealed chemical, structural and electronic heterogeneity from a single measurement.

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