Efficient, stable infrared photovoltaics based on solution-cast colloidal quantum dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 833-840

  Koleilat, Ghada I ^a   Levina, Larissa ^a   Shukla, Harnik ^a   Myrskog, Stefan H ^a   Hinds, Sean ^a   Pattantyus Abraham, Andras G ^a   Sargent, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benzenedithiol linker; Carrier transport; Infrared photovoltaics; PbSe nanocrystals; Rectifying junction

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CELLS; DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; FARM BUILDINGS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PIGMENTS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); BAND-GAPS; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; DEVICE STABILITY; FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELLS; INFRARED (IR); LARGE AREAS; NEW CLASS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAICS (PV); PHYSICAL MECHANISMS; POLYMER MATERIALS; POWER-CONVERSION EFFICIENCY (PCE); QUANTUM DOT (CO); SOLUTION-CAST; STABLE SOLUTIONS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 45749101710     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800093v     Document Type: Article

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