Charge balance and photon collection in polymer based ternary bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices containing cadmium selenide nanoparticles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

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

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION PEAKS; ACTIVE LAYER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; BULK HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; CADMIUM SELENIDES; CDSE NANOPARTICLES; CHARGE BALANCES; CURVE SHAPE; METHYL ESTERS; METHYL VIOLOGEN; PHOTON COLLECTION; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER BASED;

BUTYRIC ACID; CADMIUM; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; FATTY ACIDS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 80052089930     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3627165     Document Type: Article

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