Air-processed depleted bulk heterojunction solar cells based on PbS/CdS core-shell quantum dots and TiO2 nanorod arrays

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 124, Issue , 2014, Pages 67-74

  Atomsa Gonfa, Belete ^a   Zhao, Haiguang ^a   Li, Jiangtian ^b   Qiu, Jingxia ^c   Saidani, Menouer ^d   Zhang, Shanqing ^c   Izquierdo, Ricardo ^d   Wu, Nianqiang ^b   El Khakani, My Ali ^a   Ma, Dongling ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^b West Virginia University   (United States)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Core shell QDs; Depleted bulk heterojunction; Solar cells; TiO2 nanorod arrays; Wet chemical synthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894059008     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.01.037     Document Type: Article

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