Effect of metal oxide morphology on electron injection from CdSe quantum dots to ZnO

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 16, 2013, Pages

  Zheng, Kaibo ^a   Žídek, Karel ^a   Abdellah, Mohamed ^a,b   Chábera, Pavel ^a   Abd El Sadek, Mahmoud S ^b   Pullerits, Tõnu ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDSE QUANTUM DOTS; DIFFERENT DENSITIES; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; INJECTION EFFICIENCY; INJECTION PROCESS; MATERIAL PERMITTIVITY; QUANTUM DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; TIME-RESOLVED ABSORPTION;

ELECTRON INJECTION; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOWIRES; ZINC OXIDE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84876976613     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4803173     Document Type: Article

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