Combining Energy Conversion and Storage: A Solar Powered Supercapacitor

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 178, Issue , 2015, Pages 113-126

  Narayanan, Remya ^a   Kumar, P Naresh ^a   Deepa, Melepurath ^a   Srivastava, Avanish Kumar ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD   (India)

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

photo supercapacitor; plasmonic; quantum dot; solar cell; supercapacitor

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CARBON; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DESIGN; ELECTRODES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCRYSTALS; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; YARN;

ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGES; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (MWCNTS); OVERALL POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PLASMONIC; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS; SUPER CAPACITOR;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

EID: 84939137016     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.07.121     Document Type: Article

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