Improved open-circuit voltage in ZnO-PbSe quantum dot solar cells by understanding and reducing losses arising from the ZnO conduction band tail

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Hoye, Robert L Z ^a   Ehrler, Bruno ^b   Böhm, Marcus L ^b   Muñoz Rojas, David ^a,c   Altamimi, Rashid M ^d   Alyamani, Ahmed Y ^d   Vaynzof, Yana ^b   Sadhanala, Aditya ^b   Ercolano, Giorgio ^a   Greenham, Neil C ^b   Friend, Richard H ^b   MacManus Driscoll, Judith L ^a   Musselman, Kevin P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

band tail; colloidal quantum dot solar cells; magnesium doping; spatial atomic layer deposition; ZnO bandgap tuning

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; CONDUCTION BANDS; EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MAGNESIUM; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; TUNING;

BAND TAIL; BAND-GAP TUNING; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; DEVICE EFFICIENCY; ENERGETIC POSITION; MAGNESIUM DOPING; METAL OXIDE LAYERS; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84902079813     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201301544     Document Type: Article

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