Efficient light harvesting in hybrid CdTe nanocrystal/bulk GaAs p-i-n photovoltaic devices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Chanyawadee, Soontorn ^a   Harley, Richard T ^a   Taylor, David ^b   Henini, Mohamed ^b   Susha, Andrei S ^c   Rogach, Andrey L ^c   Lagoudakis, Pavlos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; CDTE; CDTE NANOCRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; ELECTRICAL CURRENT; GAAS; HETEROSTRUCTURE; HIGH CARRIER MOBILITY; LIGHT-HARVESTING; MONOCHROMATIC POWER CONVERSION; NEAR INFRARED; NONRADIATIVE ENERGY TRANSFER; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; RECTANGULAR CHANNEL; WATERSOLUBLE;

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY TRANSFER; GALLIUM ALLOYS; HARVESTING; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

CARRIER MOBILITY;

EID: 67649136094     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3148368     Document Type: Article

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