Quasi Core/Shell Lead Sulfide/Graphene Quantum Dots for Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 18886-18895

  Tavakoli, Mohammad Mahdi ^a,b   Aashuri, Hossein ^a   Simchi, Abdolreza ^a   Kalytchuk, Sergii ^c   Fan, Zhiyong ^b  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GRAPHENE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LEAD; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PASSIVATION; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; GRAPHENE COATINGS; HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES; NON-STOICHIOMETRIC; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; SOLAR POWER CONVERSION; SURFACE PASSIVATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84939806169     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b04195     Document Type: Article

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