Effect of the nature of cadmium salts on the effectiveness of CdS SILAR deposition and its consequences on the performance of sensitized solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 40, 2014, Pages 22873-22880

  Sfaelou, Stavroula ^a   Sygellou, Lamprini ^b   Dracopoulos, Vassilios ^b   Travlos, Anastasios ^c   Lianos, Panagiotis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SALTS; CDS; SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SILAR DEPOSITION;

EID: 84908144735     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp505787z     Document Type: Article

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