Understanding polycarbazole-based polymer:CdSe hybrid solar cells

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 31, 2012, Pages

  Lek, Jun Yan ^a   Lam, Yeng Ming ^a,c   Niziol, Jacek ^b   Marzec, Mateusz ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 ,3-BENZOTHIADIAZOLE; ACTIVE LAYER; BUILT-IN VOLTAGE; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CDSE; CDSE NANOROD; ELECTRON DONORS; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; LUMO ENERGY; ORGANIC-INORGANIC; PHOTO-VOLTAGE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MORPHOLOGY; NANORODS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

BENZO 1,2,3 THIADIAZOLE; BENZO-1,2,3-THIADIAZOLE; CADMIUM; CARBAZOLE DERIVATIVE; NANOTUBE; POLYMER; PYRIDINE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; SELENIUM; THIADIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CADMIUM; CARBAZOLES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; NANOTUBES; POLYMERS; PYRIDINES; SELENIUM; SOLAR ENERGY; THIADIAZOLES;

EID: 84863958326     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/31/315401     Document Type: Article

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