Improvement in carrier transport properties by mild thermal annealing of PbS quantum dot solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Gao, Jianbo ^a   Jeong, Sohee ^b   Lin, Feng ^a   Erslev, Peter T ^a   Semonin, Octavi E ^a,c   Luther, Joseph M ^a   Beard, Matthew C ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Korea Institute of Machine and Materials   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT RESPONSE; DOMAIN GRAINS; OPTIMAL ANNEALING; PHOTOCURRENT RESPONSE; POST-DEPOSITION; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QD ARRAYS; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS; SHALLOW TRAPS; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; GRAIN GROWTH; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ANNEALING;

EID: 84873594553     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4789434     Document Type: Article

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