Semiconductor nanocrystals as luminescent down-shifting layers to enhance the efficiency of thin-film CdTe/CdS and crystalline Si solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 16393-16400

  Kalytchuk, Sergii ^a   Gupta, Shuchi ^a   Zhovtiuk, Olga ^a   Vaneski, Aleksandar ^a   Kershaw, Stephen V ^a   Fu, Huiying ^b   Fan, Zhiyong ^b   Kwok, Eric C H ^c   Wang, Chiou Fu ^c   Teoh, Wey Yang ^a   Rogach, Andrey L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c Du Pont Apollo Limited   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON;

CDTE QUANTUM DOTS; CORE-SHELL QUANTUM DOTS; CRYSTALLINE SI SOLAR CELLS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL MODELING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84904630536     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp410279z     Document Type: Article

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