Materials and interfaces in quantum dot sensitized solar cells: Challenges, advances and prospects

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 7264-7273

  Hod, Idan ^a   Zaban, Arie ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS;

COUNTER ELECTRODES; OPERATIONAL MECHANISM; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL SOLAR CELL; POSSIBLE FUTURES; QUANTUM DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; REDOX ELECTROLYTES; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; THIRD GENERATION;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84901393064     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la403768j     Document Type: Article

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