Significant efficiency enhancement of hybrid solar cells using core-shell nanowire geometry for energy harvesting

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 9501-9510

  Tsai, Shin Hung ^a   Chang, Hung Chih ^a   Wang, Hsin Hua ^a   Chen, Szu Ying ^b   Lin, Chin An ^a   Chen, Show An ^b   Chueh, Yu Lun ^b   He, Jr Hau ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

energy harvesting; hybrid solar cells core shell; light harvesting; nanowire

Indexed keywords

AIR AMBIENT; AIR MASS; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CORE-SHELL; CORE-SHELL GEOMETRIES; CORE-SHELL NANOWIRES; CRYSTAL QUALITIES; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; EXCITON DIFFUSION LENGTH; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; HIGH POTENTIAL; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS-CORE-SHELL; LIGHT HARVESTING; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; NOVEL STRATEGIES; ORDERING STRUCTURE; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SIMULATION-BASED; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THIRD GENERATION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY HARVESTING; EXCITONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GEOMETRY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SEPARATION; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84555177470     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202485m     Document Type: Article

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