Increased photon absorption and conversion in ternary bulk heterojunction systems of CdSe/CdS core-shell nanoparticles/methyl viologen composites, conjugated polymers, and fullerenes

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1643-1647

  Peterson, Eric D ^a   Smith, Gregory M ^a   Fu, Minglai ^b   Coffin, Robert C ^a   Adams, Richard D ^b   Carroll, David L ^a  

^a Wake Forest Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BUTYRIC ACIDS; CDSE/CDS; CORE-SHELL; DIRECT ABSORPTION; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; METHYL ESTERS; METHYL VIOLOGEN; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; PHOTON FLUX; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; VIOLOGENS;

ABSORPTION; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 78650152739     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5616546     Document Type: Conference Paper

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