High-efficiency AgInS2-Modified ZnO nanotube array photoelectrodes for all-solid-state hybrid solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 17119-17125

  Han, Jianhua ^a   Liu, Zhifeng ^a   Guo, Keying ^a   Ya, Jing ^a   Zhao, Yufeng ^b   Zhang, Xueqi ^a   Hong, Tiantian ^a   Liu, Junqi ^a  

^a TIANJIN CHENGJIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AgInS2; all solid state; buffer layer; highly ordered; solar cell

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BUFFER LAYERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; NANOTUBES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; YARN; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

AGINS2; ALL-SOLID STATE; HIGHLY ORDERED; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; PHOTO-INDUCED CHARGE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PREPARATION PROCESS; ZNO NANOTUBE ARRAYS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84907886734     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5047813     Document Type: Article

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