Sulfide nanocrystal inks for dense Cu(In 1-xGa x)(S 1-ySe y) 2 absorber films and their photovoltaic performance

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3060-3065

  Guo, Qijie ^a   Ford, Grayson M ^a   Hillhouse, Hugh W ^a   Agrawal, Rakesh ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER FILMS; COLLOIDAL SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED VOLUME; COST-EFFICIENT; CUINSE2; DEVICE-QUALITY; GENERAL APPROACH; HIGH QUALITY; NANOCRYSTAL FILMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SELENIUM VAPOR; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; VOID SPACE; VOLUME EXPANSION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FABRICATION; GALLIUM; INCLUSIONS; INK; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SELENIUM; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SINTERING; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SULFUR; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

NANOCRYSTALS;

EID: 68949114214     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl901538w     Document Type: Article

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