Enhanced performance by incorporation of zinc oxide nanowire array for organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Liu, C P ^a   Chen, Z H ^a   Wang, H E ^a   Jha, S K ^a   Zhang, W J ^a   Bello, I ^a   Zapien, J A ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK RECOMBINATION; CONTROL DEVICE; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; INTERFACE RECOMBINATION; INTERFACIAL AREAS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR POWER CONVERSION; ZINC OXIDE (ZNO); ZINC OXIDE NANOWIRES; ZNO; ZNO NANOWIRE ARRAYS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOWIRES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84863334816     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4728985     Document Type: Article

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