Enhanced photovoltaic performance of polymer hybrid nanostructure heterojunction solar cells based on poly(3- hexylthiophene)/zns/zno/reduced graphene oxide shell-core nanorod arrays

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 53, Issue 37, 2014, Pages 14301-14309

  Sookhakian, Mehran ^a   Amin, Yusoff Mohd ^a   Zakaria, Rozalina ^a   Baradaran, Saeid ^a   Mahmoudian, Mohamad Reza ^a   Rezayi, Majid ^a   Tajabadi, Mohamad Taghi ^a   Basirun, Wan Jefrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

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Indexed keywords

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INDIUM; NANORODS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TIN OXIDES; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC SULFIDE;

ELECTRODEPOSITION PROCESS; FIELD EMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; MORPHOLOGY AND STRUCTURES; PHOTO-VOLTAIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO);

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84911497768     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie501677r     Document Type: Article

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