Investigation of bulk hybrid heterojunction solar cells based on Cu(In,Ga)Se2 nanocrystals

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Yen, Yu Ting ^a   Lin, Yi Kai ^a   Chang, Shu Hao ^a   Hong, Hwen Fen ^b   Tuan, Hsing Yu ^a   Chueh, Yu Lun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hybrid solar cell; Nanocrystal; Poly(3 hexylthiophene)

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLVENTS;

HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; NANOCRYSTAL (NCS); PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); SOLAR ILLUMINATION; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; THIN FILM MORPHOLOGY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84881255865     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-329     Document Type: Article

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