High-Efficiency Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics via Robust Self-Assembled Monolayers

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 7691-7696

  Kim, Gi Hwan ^a,b   García De Arquer, F Pelayo ^a   Yoon, Yung Jin ^b   Lan, Xinzheng ^a   Liu, Mengxia ^a   Voznyy, Oleksandr ^a   Yang, Zhenyu ^a   Fan, Fengjia ^a   Ip, Alexander H ^a   Kanjanaboos, Pongsakorn ^a   Hoogland, Sjoerd ^a   Kim, Jin Young ^b   Sargent, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

dipole moment; high performance; interface; Quantum dot solar cells; R SAM; robust

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DEPOSITION; DIPOLE MOMENT; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MONOLAYERS; NANOCRYSTALS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; HIGH PERFORMANCE; INTERFACE MODIFICATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS; R-SAM; ROBUST;

SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

EID: 84946821097     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03677     Document Type: Article

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