Urchin-inspired zinc oxide as building blocks for nanostructured solar cells

Nano Energy

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 696-705

  Elias, Jamil ^a   Bechelany, Mikhael ^b   Utke, Ivo ^a   Erni, Rolf ^a   Hosseini, Davood ^a   Michler, Johann ^a   Philippe, Laetitia ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT CHARLES GERHARDT   (France)

Author keywords

Atomic layer deposition; Electrodeposition; Extremely thin absorber solar cells; Light scattering; Polystyrene lithography; Urchin like ZnO

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER LAYERS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CDSE; EXTREMELY THIN ABSORBER SOLAR CELLS; HIGH SURFACE AREA; LIGHT DIFFUSION; LOW TEMPERATURES; MONOLAYER ARRAYS; NANO SPHERE LITHOGRAPHY; NANOSTRUCTURED SOLAR CELLS; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; OPTOELECTRONIC NANODEVICES; SOLAR CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; WAVELENGTH RANGES; ZNO; ZNO NANOWIRES;

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODEPOSITION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONOLAYERS; NANOWIRES; POLYSTYRENES; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84867100976     PISSN: 22112855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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