Engineering a robust photovoltaic device with quantum dots and bacteriorhodopsin

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 16710-16717

  Renugopalakrishnan, Venkatesan ^a,b   Barbiellini, Bernardo ^b   King, Chris ^b   Molinari, Michael ^c   Mochalov, Konstantin ^d   Sukhanova, Alyona ^c,d   Nabiev, Igor ^c,d   Fojan, Peter ^e   Tuller, Harry L ^f   Chin, Michael ^g   Somasundaran, Ponisseril ^g   Padrós, Esteve ^h   Ramakrishna, Seeram ⁱ  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^e AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^g Department of Physics and Nanotechnology Aalborg University ^*  (United States)

^h UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

ⁱ NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ENERGY TRANSFER; GOLD; HYBRID MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; FORSTER RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HYBRID MATERIAL COMPONENTS; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFER; SEMICONDUCTOR METAL OXIDES; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84905457640     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp502885s     Document Type: Article

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