Cadmium sulfide nanowires for the window semiconductor layer in thin film CdS-CdTe solar cells

Nanotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Piao ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^a   Jarro, Carlos A ^a   Rajaputra, Suresh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE MATRIX; AREA RATIOS; CDS; CDS LAYER; CDS/CDTE; CDTE SOLAR CELLS; HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; LEADING TECHNOLOGY; NANO-STRUCTURED; NOVEL DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SEMICONDUCTOR LAYERS; SPECTRAL TRANSMISSION; TRADITIONAL DEVICES; WINDOW LAYER;

CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOWIRES; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

CADMIUM SULFIDE;

EID: 79952678163     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/14/145304     Document Type: Article

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