Application of silver nanoparticles as an interfacial layer in cadmium sulfide quantum dot sensitized solar cells

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Doosthosseini, Fatemeh ^a   Behjat, Abbas ^a   Hashemizadeh, Sakineh ^a   Torabi, Naeimeh ^a  

^a YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

charge recombination; light harvesting; metal nanoparticles; quantum dot sensitized solar cells; surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CADMIUM SULFIDE SOLAR CELLS; CDS NANOPARTICLES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOCRYSTALS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; LIGHT-HARVESTING; NANOPARTICLE (NPS); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SUCCESSIVE IONIC LAYER ADSORPTION AND REACTIONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84923326729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JNP.9.093092     Document Type: Article

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