Nanostructured photovoltaic cell of the type titanium dioxide, cadmium sulfide thin coating, and copper thiocyanate showing high quantum efficiency

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1688-1696

  Larramona, Gerardo ^a   Choné, Christophe ^a   Jacob, Alain ^a   Sakakura, Daisuke ^a   Delatouche, Bruno ^a   Péré, Daniel ^a   Cieren, Xavier ^a   Nagino, Masashi ^b   Bayón, Rocío ^c  

^a IMRA Europe SAS   (France)

^b Aisin Chemical Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CADMIUM SULFIDE; COPPER COMPOUNDS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

COMPONENT CHARACTERIZATION; COPPER THIOCYANATE; FILLING FACTORS; THIN ABSORBER LAYERS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 33645525998     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm052819n     Document Type: Article

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