How does a silar cdse film grow? Tuning the deposition steps to suppress interfacial charge recombination in solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1575-1582

  Becker, Matthew A ^a   Radich, James G ^c   Bunker, Bruce A ^b   Kamat, Prashant V ^b,c  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

CdSe; passivation; quantum dot sensitized solar cells; SILAR; X ray absorption spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; DEPOSITION; OXIDE FILMS; PASSIVATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

CDSE; EXTREMELY THIN ABSORBER SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL SOLAR CELL; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM-DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SILAR; SUCCESSIVE IONIC LAYER ADSORPTION AND REACTIONS; X-RAY ABSORPTION NEAR-EDGE STRUCTURE;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84899860547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz500481v     Document Type: Article

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