Depleted-heterojunction colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics employing low-cost electrical contacts

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Debnath, Ratan ^a   Greiner, Mark T ^b   Kramer, Illan J ^a   Fischer, Armin ^a   Tang, Jiang ^b   Barkhouse, D Aaron R ^a   Wang, Xihua ^a   Levina, Larissa ^a   Lu, Zheng Hong ^b,c   Sargent, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b 184 College Street ^*  (Canada)

^c YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; METAL SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM DOT FILMS; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OHMIC CONTACTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 77955124053     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3463037     Document Type: Article

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