Improved performance of silicon nanowire/cadmium telluride quantum dots/organic hybrid solar cells

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 334, Issue , 2015, Pages 15-18

  Ge, Zhaoyun ^a,b   Xu, Ling ^a   Zhang, Renqi ^a   Xue, Zhaoguo ^a   Wang, Hongyu ^a   Xu, Jun ^a   Yu, Yao ^a   Su, Weining ^a   Ma, Zhongyuan ^a   Chen, Kunji ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

CdTe QDs; Down shifting; Hybrid solar cells

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CDTE QDS; CURRENT DENSITY-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DOWN-SHIFTING; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SILICON NANOWIRES; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; SPACE BETWEEN;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84925674888     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2014.07.063     Document Type: Article

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