Synthesis of nitrogen-doped carbon thin films and their applications in solar cells

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5022-5028

  Cui, Tongxiang ^a   Lv, Ruitao ^a,b   Huang, Zheng Hong ^a   Zhu, Hongwei ^a   Zhang, Jiang ^a   Li, Zhen ^a   Jia, Yi ^a   Kang, Feiyu ^a   Wang, Kunlin ^a   Wu, Dehai ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DEPOSITION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); NITROGEN; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

CHEMICAL VAPOR; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FEEDING AMOUNT; LIQUID CARBON; N TYPE SILICON; NITROGEN-DOPED CARBONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SCHOTTKY JUNCTIONS;

CARBON FILMS;

EID: 84857033929     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.07.019     Document Type: Article

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