Colloidal CuInS2 Quantum Dots as Inorganic Hole-Transporting Material in Perovskite Solar Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 31, 2015, Pages 17482-17488

  Lv, Mei ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a   Huang, Yang ^a   Li, Yi ^a   Shao, Zhipeng ^a   Xu, Yafeng ^a   Dai, Songyuan ^a,b  

^a HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE   (China)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CuInS2; hole transporting materials; interface recombination; perovskite solar cells; quantum dots

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; COST REDUCTION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; GOLD COMPOUNDS; HOLE MOBILITY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; NANOCRYSTALS; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

CATION EXCHANGES; CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; CUINS2; DEVICE EFFICIENCY; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; HOLE-TRANSPORTING MATERIALS; INTERFACE RECOMBINATION; STABILITY IMPROVEMENT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84939153116     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05104     Document Type: Article

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