Photovoltaic nanopillar radial junction diode architecture enhanced by integrating semiconductor quantum dot nanocrystals as light harvesters

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Güzeltürk, Burak ^a   Mutlugün, Evren ^a   Wang, Xiaodong ^c   Pey, Kin Leong ^b,c   Demir, Hilmi Volkan ^a,b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDSE QUANTUM DOTS; JUNCTION DIODE; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NANOPILLAR; P-N JUNCTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC DIODES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; PLANAR ARCHITECTURE; QUANTUM DOT; RESPONSIVITY; SI-BASED; SOLAR CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

ARCHITECTURE; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

EID: 77956358933     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3485294     Document Type: Article

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