Hybrid solar cells from P3HT and silicon nanocrystals

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 449-452

  Kortshagen, Uwe R ^a   Liu, Chin Yl ^a   Holman, Zachary C ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND GAPS; COMMON SOLVENTS; CONDUCTING PHASE; DIRECT ILLUMINATIONS; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; OPEN-CIRCUIT VOLTAGES; PERCOLATING NETWORKS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SHORT-CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SPIN-COATING; VOLUME RATIOS;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYMER BLENDS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

SILICON;

NANOMATERIAL; ORGANOSELENIUM DERIVATIVE; POLY(3 HEXYL)SELENOPHENE; POLY(3-HEXYL)SELENOPHENE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANOSELENIUM COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 61649087010     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl8034338     Document Type: Article

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