One-step deposition of photovoltaic layers using iodide terminated PbS quantum dots

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 4002-4007

  Kim, Sungwoo ^a,c   Noh, Jaehong ^a   Choi, Hyekyoung ^a,b   Ha, Heonseok ^a   Song, Jung Hoon ^a   Shim, Hyung Cheoul ^a   Jang, Jihoon ^a   Beard, Matthew C ^c   Jeong, Sohee ^a,b  

^a Korea Institute of Machine and Materials   (South Korea)

^b University of Science and Technology (UST)   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Iodide; Layer by layer process; Ligand exchange; One step deposition process; Quantum dot

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AMMONIUM IODIDE; DEPOSITION; DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IV-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGANDS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSIONS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

DEPOSITION PROCESS; IODIDE; IR TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LAYER BY LAYER; LIGAND EXCHANGES; N ,N-DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; PARTICLE AGGREGATION; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

LEAD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84912521543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz502092x     Document Type: Article

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