Enhanced performance of a polymer solar cell upon addition of free-standing, freshly etched, photoluminescent silicon nanocrystals

Applied Physics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Kim, Seongbeom ^a   Jeon, Kangmin ^a   Lee, Jeong Chul ^b   Swihart, Mark T ^c   Yang, Minyang ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK-HETEROJUNCTION STRUCTURE; ENHANCED PERFORMANCE; HYBRID LAYER; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; METHYL ESTERS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOCLUSTERS; PHOTOEXCITATION; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON;

EID: 84863129825     PISSN: 18820778     EISSN: 18820786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/APEX.5.022302     Document Type: Article

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