Enhancing light harvesting by hierarchical functionally graded transparent conducting Al-doped ZnO nano- and mesoarchitectures

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 128, Issue , 2014, Pages 248-253

  Gondoni, Paolo ^a   Mazzolini, Piero ^a,b   Russo, Valeria ^a   Petrozza, Annamaria ^b   Srivastava, Avanish K ^c   Li Bassi, Andrea ^a,b   Casari, Carlo S ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Electrodes; Hierarchical structures; Photovoltaic materials; Porous materials; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; POROUS MATERIALS; ZINC OXIDE;

FUNCTIONALLY GRADED; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; LOW BANDGAP POLYMERS; MECHANICAL FLEXIBILITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS; PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; TREE-LIKE STRUCTURES; VISIBLE TRANSPARENCIES;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 84902177409     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.05.035     Document Type: Article

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