Highly transparent low resistance ZnO/Ag nanowire/ZnO composite electrode for thin film solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1081-1091

  Kim, Areum ^a   Won, Yulim ^a   Woo, Kyoohee ^a   Kim, Chul Hong ^b   Moon, Jooho ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b LG Display Co Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

indium free transparent electrode; multilayer composite electrode; silver nanowire; thin film solar cells; zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; CELL PERFORMANCE; COMPOSITE ELECTRODE; CONDUCTING COMPOSITES; CU(IN ,GA)(S ,SE)2; CURRENT COLLECTION; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; INDIUM-FREE; LOW RESISTANCE; MULTI-LAYERED COMPOSITES; MULTILAYER COMPOSITE; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; PERCOLATING NETWORKS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SILVER NANOWIRES; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING ELECTRODES; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE; ZNO; ZNO LAYERS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FILM PREPARATION; INDIUM; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; TIN OXIDES; ZINC OXIDE;

SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84874433247     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305491x     Document Type: Article

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