High-efficiency aqueous-processed hybrid solar cells with an enormous Herschel infrared contribution

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8606-8612

  Jin, Gan ^a   Wei, Hao Tong ^b   Na, Tian Yi ^b   Sun, Hai Zhu ^a   Zhang, Hao ^b   Yang, Bai ^b  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jilin University   (China)

Author keywords

aqueous processed; colloidal quantum dots; hybrid solar cells; near infrared

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; INFRARED DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WATER ABSORPTION;

AQUEOUS-PROCESSED; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; NEAR INFRARED; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; PHOTOVOLTAIC RESPONSE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; WATER-SOLUBLE CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84902436630     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501408v     Document Type: Article

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