Facile synthesis of ultra-small PbSe nanorods for photovoltaic application

Nanoscale

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2461-2470

  Han, Lu ^a   Liu, Jie ^a   Yu, Ningning ^a   Liu, Zeke ^a   Gu, Jinan ^a   Lu, Jialing ^a   Ma, Wanli ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; GROWTH RATE; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; IV-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANORODS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; LEAD CHALCOGENIDES; MONOMER REACTIVITY; NANOCRYSTAL ARRAYS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; REACTION TEMPERATURE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84922351043     PISSN: 20403364     EISSN: 20403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4nr05707d     Document Type: Article

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