Magnetron sputtered zinc oxide nanorods as thickness-insensitive cathode interlayer for perovskite planar-heterojunction solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 20585-20589

  Liang, Lusheng ^a,b   Huang, Zhifeng ^a   Cai, Longhua ^b   Chen, Weizhong ^b   Wang, Baozeng ^b   Chen, Kaiwu ^b   Bai, Hua ^a   Tian, Qingyong ^b   Fan, Bin ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Xiamen Weihua solar Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

electron transport layer; flexible solar cell; short circuit current

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; IODINE COMPOUNDS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; METALLIC FILMS; NANORODS; PEROVSKITE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION; ZINC OXIDE;

CATHODE INTERLAYERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELLS; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTIONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SPUTTERING TECHNIQUES; ZINC OXIDE NANORODS;

PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84917680685     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am506672j     Document Type: Article

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