Anomalous photocathodic behavior of CdS within the urbach tail region

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 113, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 6774-6784

  Podborska, Agnieszka ^a   Gawel, Bartlomiej ^a   Pietrzak, Lukasz ^b   Szymańska, Iwona B ^c   Jeszka, Jeremiasz K ^b   Łasocha, Wieslaw ^a   Szacilowski, Konrad ^a,d,e  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Centrum Bada Molekularnych i Makromolekularnych Polskiej Akademii Nauk   (Poland)

^c NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d Polska Akademia Nauk Oddzial w Krakowie   (Poland)

^e AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CDS; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; DOPED SAMPLE; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; LOW ENERGIES; MICROWAVE-ASSISTED; NON-AQUEOUS SOLVENTS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUE; QUANTUM-CHEMICAL CALCULATION; SWITCHING EFFECT; SWITCHING PROCESS; URBACH TAIL;

CADMIUM; DYES; PHOTOCURRENTS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLVENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SULFUR; THIOUREAS; UREA;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 67049109095     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp809794s     Document Type: Article

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