Solar cells based on inks of n-type colloidal quantum dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 10321-10327

  Ning, Zhijun ^a   Dong, Haopeng ^a,b   Zhang, Qiong ^a   Voznyy, Oleksandr ^a   Sargent, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

halide ligands; n type; nanocrystals; photodiode; solar cells

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; LIGANDS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTODIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

ALIPHATIC LIGANDS; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; HALIDE LIGAND; INORGANIC LIGANDS; JUNCTION DEVICES; LIGAND EXCHANGES; SOLAR POWER CONVERSION; SOLUTION PHASE;

SOLS;

EID: 84908452562     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503569p     Document Type: Article

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