Exciton harvesting, charge transfer, and charge-carrier transport in amorphous-silicon nanopillar/polymer hybrid solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Gowrishankar, Vignesh ^a   Scully, Shawn R ^a   Chan, Albert T ^a   McGehee, Michael D ^a   Wang, Qi ^b   Branz, Howard M ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CHARGE TRANSFER; DIFFUSION; EXCITONS; PHOTOCURRENTS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS;

BILAYERS; CHARGE-CARRIER EXTRACTION; EXCITON HARVESTING; HOLE TRANSFER;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41549115488     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2896583     Document Type: Article

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