Harvest of near infrared light in PbSe nanocrystal-polymer hybrid photovoltaic cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Cui, Dehu ^a   Xu, Jian ^a   Zhu, Ting ^a   Paradee, Gary ^a   Ashok, S ^a   Gerhold, Michael ^b  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INFRARED RESPONSE; NANOCRYSTAL QUANTUM DOT POLYMER COMPOSITES; PSEUDOMONOMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION KINETICS;

INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33646495572     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2201047     Document Type: Article

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