PbS Quantum-Dot Depleted Heterojunction Solar Cells Employing CdS Nanorod Arrays as the Electron Acceptor with Enhanced Efficiency

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 41, 2015, Pages 23117-23123

  Yao, Xudong ^a   Liu, Shangjing ^a   Chang, Yajing ^a   Li, Guopeng ^a   Mi, Longfei ^a   Wang, Xiaoming ^b   Jiang, Yang ^a  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CdS nanorod arrays; depleted heterojunction; PbS quantum dots; power conversion efficiency; solar cells

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CADMIUM SULFIDE SOLAR CELLS; COATINGS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORBING MATERIALS; CDS NANOROD; ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; INTERFACIAL CONTACT; PBS QUANTUM DOTS; PLANAR HETEROJUNCTION STRUCTURES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84945394687     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06857     Document Type: Article

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