Engineered CuInSexS2- x quantum dots for sensitized solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 355-361

  McDaniel, Hunter ^a   Fuke, Nobuhiro ^b   Pietryga, Jeffrey M ^a   Klimov, Victor I ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

alloy; cation exchange; charge transfer; CuInS2; CuInSe2; heterojunction; nanocrystal; quantum dot; sensitized solar cell

Indexed keywords

1-DODECANETHIOL; ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; CATION EXCHANGES; CUINS2; CUINSE2; NEAR-INFRARED; PHOTO-VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SELENIDES; SOLAR SPECTRUM; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; SULFUR PRECURSOR; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS; TIO; TUNABLE BAND-GAP;

ALLOYS; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CERIUM ALLOYS; CHARGE TRANSFER; CHELATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPPER COMPOUNDS; ENERGY GAP; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOCRYSTALS; POSITIVE IONS; SELENIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SULFUR; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84873427681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz302067r     Document Type: Article

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