Characteristics of a Silicon Nanowires/PEDOT:PSS Heterojunction and Its Effect on the Solar Cell Performance

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5830-5836

  Liang, Zhimin ^a   Su, Mingze ^a   Wang, Hao ^b   Gong, Yuting ^b   Xie, Fangyan ^b   Gong, Li ^b   Meng, Hui ^a   Liu, Pengyi ^a   Chen, Huanjun ^b   Xie, Weiguang ^a   Chen, Jian ^b  

^a JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

built in potential; coverage effect; cross sectional imaging; heterojunction; silicon nanowires; solar cell

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOWIRES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

BUILT-IN POTENTIAL; COVERAGE EFFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL IMAGING; ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION; KELVIN PROBE FORCE MICROSCOPY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; SILICON NANOWIRES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84925355393     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am508879b     Document Type: Article

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