Improved performance of colloidal CdSe quantum dot-sensitized solar cells by hybrid passivation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 18808-18815

  Huang, Jing ^a   Xu, Bo ^a   Yuan, Chunze ^a   Chen, Hong ^b   Sun, Junliang ^b   Sun, Licheng ^a   Ågren, Hans ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

colloidal quantum dots; hybrid passivation; quantum dot sensitized solar cells; solution process

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; IONS; LIGANDS; NANOCRYSTALS; OXIDE MINERALS; PASSIVATION; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLS; SURFACE DEFECTS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; LIGAND EXCHANGE REACTIONS; MERCAPTOPROPIONIC ACID; PASSIVATION TREATMENT; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SOLUTION PROCESS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84910117109     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504536a     Document Type: Article

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