Origin of low sensitizing efficiency of quantum dots in organic solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 8983-8988

  Ten Cate, Sybren ^a   Schins, Juleon M ^a   Siebbeles, Laurens D A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bulk heterojunction; infrared photovoltaic; organic semiconductor; quantum dot; terahertz spectroscopy; ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION ONSET; BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CHARGE LOCALIZATION; COULOMB ATTRACTION; FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELLS; INFRARED LIGHT; NEAR INFRARED; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR SPECTRUM; TIME-DOMAIN TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY;

EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ORGANIC COMPOUND; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLAR ENERGY;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84867803599     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303058u     Document Type: Article

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