The donor-supply electrode enhances performance in colloidal quantum dot solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 6111-6116

  Maraghechi, Pouya ^a   Labelle, André J ^a   Kirmani, Ahmad R ^b   Lan, Xinzheng ^a,c   Adachi, Michael M ^a   Thon, Susanna M ^a   Hoogland, Sjoerd ^a   Lee, Anna ^a   Ning, Zhijun ^a   Fischer, Armin ^a   Amassian, Aram ^b   Sargent, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

atomic layer deposition; charge transfer doping; colloidal quantum dot; donor supply electrode; photovoltaics; solar cells

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; OPTO-ELECTRONIC MODELING; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; TERMINAL ELECTRODES; TRANSPARENT METALS; VISIBLE-AND-INFRARED SPECTRUMS;

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM;

EID: 84880778048     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn401918d     Document Type: Article

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