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Pictures from the blended zone

Nature Materials volume 5, pages 675–676 (2006)Cite this article

The morphology of semiconductor blends greatly affects their performance in solar cells. Advances in scanning probe potentiometry are making it possible to image directly the build up of charge after a cell is illuminated.

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Figure 2: A model and a schematic energy band diagram of three types of solar cells.

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