Photoinduced charge transfer and efficient solar energy conversion in a blend of a red polyfluorene copolymer with CdSe nanoparticles

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1789-1793

  Wang, Peng ^a   Abrusci, Agnese ^a   Wong, Henry M P ^a   Svensson, Mattias ^b   Andersson, Mats R ^b   Greenham, Neil C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHARGE TRANSFER; COPOLYMERS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR ENERGY;

PHOTOEXCITATION; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE TRANSFER; POLYFLUORENE COPOLYMER; SOLAR POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; FLUORENE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE; NANOMATERIAL; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLAR ENERGY; TRANSDUCER;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTROSTATICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLUORENES; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR ENERGY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33748335671     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl061085q     Document Type: Article

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