Improving polymer/nanocrystal hybrid solar cell performance via tuning ligand orientation at CdSe quantum dot surface

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 19154-19160

  Fu, Weifei ^a   Wang, Ling ^a   Zhang, Yanfang ^b   Ma, Ruisong ^b   Zuo, Lijian ^a   Mai, Jiangquan ^c   Lau, Tsz Ki ^c   Du, Shixuan ^b   Lu, Xinhui ^c   Shi, Minmin ^a   Li, Hanying ^a   Chen, Hongzheng ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

charge transport; electronic coupling; exciton dissociation; hybrid solar cell; ligand orientation

Indexed keywords

CARRIER TRANSPORT; CHARGE TRANSFER; DISSOCIATION; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGANDS; NANOCRYSTALS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLS; TUNING;

2 ,1 ,3-BENZOTHIADIAZOLE; CHARGE CARRIER DISSOCIATION; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; ELECTRONIC COUPLING; EXCITON DISSOCIATION; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84910107797     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am505130a     Document Type: Article

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