Trilaminar ZnO/ZnS/Sb2S3 nanotube arrays for efficient inorganic-organic hybrid solar cells

RSC Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 45, 2014, Pages 23807-23814

  Han, Jianhua ^a   Liu, Zhifeng ^a   Zheng, Xuerong ^b   Guo, Keying ^a   Zhang, Xueqi ^a   Hong, Tiantian ^a   Wang, Bo ^a   Liu, Junqi ^a  

^a TIANJIN CHENGJIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; BUFFER LAYERS; NANOTUBES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; ZINC SULFIDE;

CARRIER RECOMBINATION; CHEMICAL CONVERSION PROCESS; CHEMICAL CONVERSIONS; ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT; INORGANIC-ORGANIC HYBRID; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLID STATE SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84902481657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra02554g     Document Type: Article

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