PbSe Nanocrystal Excitonic Solar Cells

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3749-3755

  Choi, Joshua J ^a   Lim, Yee Fun ^a   Santiago Berrios, MitK'Ei B ^b   Oh, Matthew ^a   Hyun, Byung Ryool ^a   Sun, Liangfeng ^a   Bartnik, Adam C ^a   Goedhart, Augusta ^a   Malliaras, George G ^a   Abruña, Héctor D ^b   Wise, Frank W ^a   Hanrath, Tobias ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; CHARGE EXTRACTION; CHARGE SEPARATION MECHANISM; CHARGE TRANSFER MECHANISMS; DEVICE CURRENTS; ENERGY LEVEL; EXCITONIC SOLAR CELLS; GAINING INSIGHTS; HOLE TRANSPORTING; NANO-STRUCTURED; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; PBSE NANOCRYSTALS; PEDOT:PSS; PHOTO-INDUCED; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC MEASUREMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; PLANAR JUNCTIONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SCHOTTKY DEVICES; SIZE DEPENDENT; TEST STRUCTURE; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; ION EXCHANGE; MACHINE DESIGN; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; PHASE INTERFACES; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 72849107579     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl901930g     Document Type: Article

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