Evolution pathway of CIGSe nanocrystals for solar cell applications

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 116, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 8202-8209

  Ahmadi, Mahshid ^a   Pramana, Stevin Snellius ^b   Xi, Lifei ^a   Boothroyd, Chris ^e   Lam, Yeng Ming ^a,c,d   Mhaisalkar, Subodh ^a,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; EVOLUTION PATHWAYS; FUNCTION OF TIME; GROWTH SEQUENCES; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; HOT INJECTION; LOW COSTS; MOLECULAR PRECURSOR; PHASE CHANGE; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; STOICHIOMETRY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TERNARY COMPOUNDS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; TIME-DEPENDENT; VEGARD'S LAW;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; STOICHIOMETRY;

NANOCRYSTALS;

EID: 84859762023     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp300187r     Document Type: Article

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