Efficient light harvesting by photon downconversion and light trapping in hybrid ZnS nanoparticles/Si nanotips solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5849-5854

  Huang, Chun Ying ^a   Wang, Di Yan ^b   Wang, Chun Hsiung ^a   Chen, Yung Ting ^a   Wang, Yaw Tyng ^b   Jiang, You Ting ^b   Yang, Ying Jay ^a   Chen, Chia Chun ^b,c   Chen, Yang Fang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

downconversion; light harvesting; light trapping; quantum dot; silicon nanotips; solar cell

Indexed keywords

DOWNCONVERSION; LIGHT HARVESTING; LIGHT TRAPPING; QUANTUM DOT; SILICON NANOTIPS;

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTIPS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; ZINC SULFIDE;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 78049352770     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101817s     Document Type: Article

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