Dual Sensitization Strategy for High-Performance Core/Shell/Quasi-shell Quantum Dot Solar Cells

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 4848-4859

  Sahasrabudhe, Atharva ^a   Bhattacharyya, Sayan ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; NANOCRYSTALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS; QUANTUM DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SUCCESSIVE IONIC LAYER ADSORPTION AND REACTIONS; SURFACE COVERAGES; THIRD GENERATION PHOTOVOLTAICS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84937057159     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01731     Document Type: Article

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