Three-dimensional core-shell hybrid solar cells via controlled in situ materials engineering

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3581-3586

  Mariani, Giacomo ^a   Wang, Yue ^a   Wong, Ping Show ^a   Lech, Andrew ^a   Hung, Chung Hong ^a   Shapiro, Joshua ^a   Prikhodko, Sergey ^a   El Kady, Maher ^a,b   Kaner, Richard B ^a   Huffaker, Diana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

conducting polymer; electrodeposition; hybrid; materials engineering; Nanowire; solar cell

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURE; AIR-STABLE; COATING PROCESS; CORE-SHELL; CORE-SHELL HYBRIDS; DEVICE PROPERTIES; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; GAAS; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; HYBRID; IN-SITU; MATERIALS ENGINEERING; NANO-PILLAR ARRAYS; ORGANIC LAYERS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; POLY(3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TUNABLE PROPERTIES;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTROPOLYMERIZATION; NANOWIRES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84863835411     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl301251q     Document Type: Article

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