Study of Schottky contact in binary and ternary hybrid CdSe quantum dot solar cells

RSC Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 62, 2014, Pages 32651-32657

  Ramar, M ^a   Suman, C K ^a   Manimozhi, R ^b   Ahamad, R ^a   Srivastava, R ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b JSS ACADEMY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CAPACITANCE VOLTAGE; CONDUCTION PROCESS; CONTACT RESISTANCE R; CURRENT DENSITY-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; SCHOTTKY CONTACTS; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84905748781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra04966g     Document Type: Article

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