Air stable, photosensitive, phase pure iron pyrite nanocrystal thin films for photovoltaic application

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4953-4957

  Bi, Yu ^a,b   Yuan, Yongbo ^a   Exstrom, Christopher L ^a,c   Darveau, Scott A ^a,c   Huang, Jinsong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR STABILITY; AIR STABLE; FILM SURFACES; HIGH CARRIER MOBILITY; NANOCRYSTAL THIN FILMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS; PURE IRON; RATIONAL SYNTHESIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILICON-BASED; SULFUR ATOMS; SURFACE DECOMPOSITION; TRIOCTYLPHOSPHINE OXIDE;

CARRIER MOBILITY; NANOCRYSTALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SULFUR; SURFACES;

IRON;

IRON; NANOMATERIAL; PYRITE; SULFIDE;

AIR; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

AIR; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; IRON; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; RADIATION DOSAGE; SULFIDES;

EID: 80755142769     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl202902z     Document Type: Article

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