Origin of Unusual Excitonic Absorption and Emission from Colloidal Ag2S Nanocrystals: Ultrafast Photophysics and Solar Cell

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 3915-3922

  Mir, Wasim J ^a   Swarnkar, Abhishek ^a   Sharma, Rituraj ^b   Katti, Aditya ^a   Adarsh, K V ^b   Nag, Angshuman ^a  

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

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH BHOPAL   (India)

Author keywords

Ag2S nanocrystals; cation exchange; excitonic absorption and emission; femtosecond transient absorption; quantum dot sensitized solar cell

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CADMIUM SULFIDE; DEFECTS; EXCITED STATES; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOCRYSTALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTONS; PHOTOPHYSICS; POSITIVE IONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

CATION EXCHANGE REACTIONS; CATION EXCHANGES; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; EXCITONIC ABSORPTION; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; PHOTOCONVERSION EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

SILVER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84942884520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01692     Document Type: Article

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