Improvement of CdSe/P3HT bulk hetero-junction solar cell performance due to ligand exchange from TOPO to pyridine

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3009-3014

  Truong, Nguyen Tam Nguyen ^a   Kim, Woo Kyoung ^a   Farva, Umme ^a,c   Luo, Xiang Dong ^a,b   Park, Chinho ^a  

^a Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^b NANTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blue shift; Bulk hetero junction; Cubic structure; Ligand; Nanoparticles; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

BLUE SHIFT; BULK HETERO-JUNCTION; CADMIUM SELENIDES; CUBIC STRUCTURE; CURRENT COLLECTION; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HOT INJECTION; LIGAND EXCHANGES; LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTION PROCESS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; PL SPECTRA; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; SURFACE LIGANDS; WAVELENGTH SHIFT;

CADMIUM; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LIGANDS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

PYRIDINE;

EID: 80051545186     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.06.015     Document Type: Article

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