Interfacial carrier dynamics in PbS-ZnO light harvesting assemblies and their potential implication in photovoltaic/ photocatalysis application

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 134, Issue , 2015, Pages 400-406

  Sardar, Samim ^a   Kar, Prasenjit ^a   Sarkar, Soumik ^a   Lemmens, Peter ^b   Pal, S K ^a  

^a S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

F rster resonance energy transfer (FRET); Hole trapping; Interfacial carrier dynamics; Light harvesting assemblies (LHAs); PbS ZnO nanocomposites

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHARGE TRANSFER; DYNAMICS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

CARRIER DYNAMICS; HOLE TRAPPING; LIGHT-HARVESTING; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; ZNO;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84920742527     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.12.032     Document Type: Article

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