Near-IR activity of hybrid solar cells: Enhancement of efficiency by dissociating excitons generated in PbS nanoparticles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Guchhait, Asim ^a   Rath, Arup K ^a   Pal, Amlan J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BAND; EXTERNAL CIRCUITS; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; NEAR-IR; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

BAND STRUCTURE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HYBRID SYSTEMS; NANOPARTICLES; SOLAR CELLS;

EXCITONS;

EID: 77249157850     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3292183     Document Type: Article

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