Performance improvement of CdS quantum dots sensitized TiO2 solar cells by introducing a dense TiO2 blocking layer

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Tachibana, Yasuhiro ^a   Umekita, Kazuya ^a   Otsuka, Yasuhide ^a   Kuwabata, Susumu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

BLOCKING LAYERS; ELECTRON LEAKAGE; ONE-DIODE MODEL; QUANTUM DOTS SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 43049144638     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/41/10/102002     Document Type: Article

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