Boosting the open circuit voltage and fill factor of QDSSCs using hierarchically assembled ITO@Cu2S nanowire array counter electrodes

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3088-3095

  Jiang, Yan ^a   Yu, Bin Bin ^a   Liu, Jie ^a   Li, Zhi Hua ^a   Sun, Jian Kun ^a   Zhong, Xin Hua ^b   Hu, Jin Song ^a   Song, Wei Guo ^a   Wan, Li Jun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

charge transfer; Nanostructures; quantum dots; solar cells; three dimensional

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CHARGE TRANSFER RESISTANCE; COUNTER ELECTRODES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SERIES RESISTANCES; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; TRANSPORT NETWORKS;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84929378247     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00096     Document Type: Article

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