Enhancement of polymer solar cell performance under low-concentrated sunlight by 3D surface-engineered silicon nanocrystals

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3287-3291

  Svrcek, Vladimir ^a   Yamanari, Toshiro ^a   Mariotti, Davide ^b   Mitra, Somak ^b   Matsubara, Koji ^a   Kondo, Michio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Low concentrator sunlight; Polymer solar cells; Silicon nanocrystals; Surface engineering

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTONS; POLYMERS; SILICON; SURFACES;

3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; LOW CONCENTRATOR SUNLIGHT; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES; POLY(4-STYRENESULFONATE); POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SURFACE ENGINEERING;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84896474087     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2013.6745153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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