Above-11%-efficiency organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells with omnidirectional harvesting characteristics by employing hierarchical photon-trapping structures

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3658-3663

  Wei, Wan Rou ^a,b   Tsai, Meng Lin ^a   Ho, Shu Te ^a   Tai, Shih Hsiang ^a   Ho, Cherng Rong ^a   Tsai, Shin Hung ^a   Liu, Chee Wee ^a   Chung, Ren Jei ^b   He, Jr Hau ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

heterojunction; Hybrid solar cells; omnidirectionality; p hoton management; Si

Indexed keywords

CARRIER DIFFUSIONS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; OMNIDIRECTIONALITY; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; PHOTOVOLTAIC CHARACTERISTICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR APPLICATIONS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOWIRES; SILICON; TRACKING (POSITION);

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84881580883     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl401540h     Document Type: Article

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