Temperature-stable and optically transparent thin-film zinc oxide aerogel electrodes as model systems for 3D interpenetrating organic-inorganic heterojunction solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 6522-6529

  Krumm, Michael ^a   Pawlitzek, Fabian ^a   Weickert, Jonas ^a   Schmidt Mende, Lukas ^a   Polarz, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

hybrid materials; metal oxides; nanostructured surfaces; photovoltaics; porous thin films; semiconductors

Indexed keywords

3D NETWORKS; CONVENTIONAL DRYING; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC APPLICATION; INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; MASS PRODUCTION; METAL OXIDES; MODEL SYSTEM; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOSTRUCTURED ELECTRODE MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACE; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POROUS FILM; POROUS THIN FILMS; SOLAR LIGHT; SUPERCRITICAL DRYING; TEMPERATURE STABLE; WET GELS; ZNO; ZNO FILMS;

AEROGELS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYBRID MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SOLAR CELLS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ZINC OXIDE;

FILM PREPARATION;

EID: 84871651534     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am302458n     Document Type: Article

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