Top-down strategy toward versatile graphene quantum dots for organic/inorganic hybrid solar cells

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 637-644

  Qin, Yuancheng ^a   Cheng, Yuanyuan ^a   Jiang, Longying ^b   Jin, Xiao ^a   Li, Mingjun ^a   Luo, Xubiao ^a   Liao, Guoqing ^a   Wei, Taihuei ^c   Li, Qinghua ^a  

^a NANCHANG HANGKONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Xiamen Knano Graphene Technology Co Ltd   (China)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

buffer layer; carbon quantum dots; graphene; Organic inorganic solar cells; top down

Indexed keywords

BUFFER LAYERS; CARBON QUANTUM DOTS; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOTS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; METALS; NANOCRYSTALS; OXIDE MINERALS; QUANTUM DOT LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

BLUE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; DONOR-ACCEPTOR SYSTEM; METAL OXIDE NANOCRYSTALS; ORGANIC/INORGANIC; ORGANIC/INORGANIC HYBRIDS; POST-HYDROTHERMAL TREATMENTS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TOPDOWN;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84926436214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc500761n     Document Type: Article

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