Evolution of long range bandgap tunable lead sulfide nanocrystals with photovoltaic properties

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 7934-7939

  Khan, Ali Hossain ^a   Thupakula, Umamahesh ^a   Dalui, Amit ^a   Maji, Subrata ^a   Debangshi, Anupam ^a   Acharya, Somobrata ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANNEALING TIME; CRITICAL SIZE; IR SPECTRAL RANGE; MONO-DISPERSED; OPTIMAL DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; REACTION TEMPERATURE;

NANOCRYSTALS;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 84876588673     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp402030p     Document Type: Article

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