Impact of nanocrystal spray deposition on inorganic solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 7902-7909

  Townsend, Troy K ^a   Yoon, Woojun ^a   Foos, Edward E ^a   Tischler, Joseph G ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CdTe; nanocrystals; photovoltaics; solution processing; Spray deposition

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; ENCAPSULATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ITO GLASS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

CDTE; HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; INORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SOLUTION CONCENTRATION; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; SPRAY DEPOSITION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

DEPOSITS;

EID: 84901650365     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501235v     Document Type: Article

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