Colloidal synthesis and air-annealing of CdSe nanorods for the applications in hybrid bulk hetero-junction solar cells

Materials Letters

Volumn 64, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1415-1417

  Farva, Umme ^a   Park, Chinho ^a  

^a Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Air annealing; Cadmium selenide; Morphology transformation; Photoluminescence spectroscopy; Transmission electron microscopy; XRD

Indexed keywords

AIR-ANNEALING; CADMIUM SELENIDES; MORPHOLOGY TRANSFORMATION; MORPHOLOGY TRANSFORMATIONS; XRD;

ANNEALING; CADMIUM; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; NANORODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77953137287     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2010.03.026     Document Type: Article

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