Ex situ CdSe quantum dot-sensitized solar cells employing inorganic ligand exchange to boost efficiency

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 214-222

  Liu, Feng ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a   Wei, Junfeng ^a   Li, Yi ^a   Hu, Linhua ^a   Huang, Yang ^a   Takuya, Oshima ^b   Shen, Qing ^b,c   Toyoda, Taro ^b,c   Zhang, Bing ^d   Yao, Jianxi ^d   Dai, Songyuan ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLASMA PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT DEPOSITION; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT; NANOCRYSTALLINE ELECTRODES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE CHEMICALS; TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS; TRIOCTYLPHOSPHINES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS;

LIGANDS;

EID: 84892606813     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp410599q     Document Type: Article

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