Materials science: Air-stable all-inorganic nanocrystal solar cells processed from solution

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5747, 2005, Pages 462-465

  Gur, Ilan ^a,c   Fromer, Neil A ^a   Geier, Michael L ^c   Alivisatos, A Paul ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLUTIONS;

INORGANIC NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SPIN-CAST;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOPARTICLE;

PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM;

AIR; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; POWER SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 27144558289     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1117908     Document Type: Article

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29. We thank A. Radenovic, K. Sivula, U. Bach, D. Milliron, J. Wang, and S. Laubach for research support and valuable discussion. Supported by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of Science, Division of Materials Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-O5CH11231. I.G. further acknowledges the National Science Foundation for support under a Graduate Research Fellowship. Dedicated in loving memory to Benjamin Boussert, Giulia Adesso, and Jason Choy.