Low-Cost Copper Nanostructures Impart High Efficiencies to Quantum Dot Solar Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 13303-13313

  Kumar, P Naresh ^a   Deepa, Melepurath ^a   Ghosal, Partha ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD   (India)

^b DEFENCE METALLURGICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

nanoneedles; nanoparticles; quantum dots; scattering; solar cell

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CARBON; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANONEEDLES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; QUENCHING; SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE POTENTIAL; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FACE CENTERED CUBIC STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; KELVIN PROBE FORCE MICROSCOPY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84933509979     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01175     Document Type: Article

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