Improvement in PbS-based hybrid bulk-heterojunction solar cells through band alignment via bismuth doping in the nanocrystals

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 8886-8893

  Saha, Sudip K ^a   Bera, Abhijit ^a   Pal, Amlan J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

band alignment at polymer:QD interface; Bi doped PbS quantum dots; effect of doping on hybrid bulk heterojunction solar cells; electron conduction through QDs; shift in Fermi energy

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; BISMUTH; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FERMI LEVEL; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPED POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLAR CELLS;

BAND ALIGNMENTS; DOPANT CONCENTRATIONS; ELECTRON CONDUCTION; HYBRID BULK HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPTIMUM CONCENTRATION; PBS QUANTUM DOTS; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; TYPE II BAND ALIGNMENTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84928809845     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01521     Document Type: Article

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