Nanostructured Al-Zno/CdSe/Cu 2O ETA solar cells on Al-ZnO film/quartz glass templates

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-5

  Wang, Xianghu ^a   Li, Rongbin ^a   Fan, Donghua ^b  

^a SHANGHAI DIANJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Wuyi University   (China)

Author keywords

Extremely thin absorber; Oxide semiconducting material; Window material for solar cell

Indexed keywords

AL-DOPED ZNO; ETA-SOLAR CELLS; EXTREMELY THIN ABSORBER SOLAR CELLS; EXTREMELY THIN ABSORBERS; NANO-STRUCTURED; ONE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTING MATERIAL; P-I-N JUNCTIONS; P-TYPE; RADIO FREQUENCY MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUARTZ; SEMICONDUCTING GLASS; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR ENERGY; ZINC OXIDE;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 84862958833     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-614     Document Type: Article

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