Hybrid nanostructure heterojunction solar cells fabricated using vertically aligned ZnO nanotubes grown on reduced graphene oxide

Nanotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 40, 2011, Pages

  Yang, Kaikun ^a,b   Xu, Congkang ^a,b   Huang, Liwei ^a,b   Zou, Lianfeng ^a,b   Wang, Howard ^a,b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODE CONDUCTANCE; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; HETEROJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES; INORGANIC/ORGANIC HYBRID; INTERFACIAL AREAS; LOW COSTS; LOW TEMPERATURES; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POWER OUT PUT; SPIN CASTING; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; ZNO NANOTUBE;

CONDUCTIVE FILMS; GRAPHENE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTUBES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; ZINC OXIDE;

OXIDE FILMS;

EID: 80052945377     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/40/405401     Document Type: Article

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