Fabrication and investigation of the optoelectrical properties of MoS2/CdS heterojunction solar cells

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gu, Weixia ^a   Yang, Fan ^a   Wu, Chen ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a   Shi, Miaoyuan ^b   Ma, Xiying ^a  

^a SUZHOU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CBD; CdS; CVD; I V behaviors; Molybdenum disulfide; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CADMIUM SULFIDE SOLAR CELLS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INFRARED DEVICES; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TIN OXIDES;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (CVD); CHEMICAL-BATH DEPOSITION; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; I-V BEHAVIOR; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; OPTOELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84928681619     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-662     Document Type: Article

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