Depleted bulk heterojunctions in thermally annealed PbS quantum dot solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 27, 2014, Pages 14749-14758

  Ding, Bo ^a   Wang, Yang ^b   Huang, Po Shun ^a   Waldeck, David H ^b   Lee, Jung Kun ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SINTERING; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION; CARRIER EXTRACTION; COMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ETHANEDITHIOL (EDT); HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; INTERFACE STRUCTURES; NANOSCALE STRUCTURE; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84904328326     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp502356d     Document Type: Article

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