Doped zinc oxide window layers for dye sensitized solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 13, 2013, Pages

  Kumar, Vinod ^a   Singh, Neetu ^b,c   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Purohit, L P ^d   Kapoor, Avinashi ^b   Ntwaeaborwa, Odireleng M ^a   Swart, Hendrik C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^d GURUKUL KANGRI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; EFFICIENCY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANORODS; OXIDE MINERALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC OXIDE;

DOPED ZINC OXIDES; ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; HOST MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLE (NPS); NEW APPROACHES; SOL-GEL ROUTES; WINDOW LAYER; ZINC OXIDE (ZNO);

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84885447127     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4824363     Document Type: Article

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