Photovoltaic devices with a low band gap polymer and CdSe nanostructures exceeding 3% efficiency

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 239-242

  Dayal, Smita ^a   Kopidakis, Nikos ^a   Olson, Dana C ^a   Ginley, David S ^a   Rumbles, Garry ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inorganic organic photovoltaic devices; Low band gap polymer; Nanoparticles; Power conversion efficiency

Indexed keywords

BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; CDSE NANOPARTICLES; DEVICE EFFICIENCY; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INORGANIC-ORGANIC; LOW BAND GAP CONJUGATED POLYMERS; LOW BANDGAP POLYMERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; NANOPARTICLES;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 74849104328     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl903406s     Document Type: Article

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