Formation of all-oxide solar cells in atmospheric condition based on Cu2O thin-films grown through SILAR technique

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 147, Issue , 2016, Pages 17-26

  Chatterjee, Soumyo ^a   Saha, Sudip K ^a   Pal, Amlan J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

All oxide solar cells; Band edges of the oxides from scanning tunneling spectroscopy; NiO Cu2O ZnO SnO2 heterojunctions; SILAR films of Cu2O for solar cell applications

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPPER; COPPER OXIDES; DEPOSITION; ENERGY CONVERSION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CARRIER-BLOCKING LAYERS; ELECTRON BLOCKING LAYER; HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; POST DEPOSITION ANNEALING; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; SUCCESSIVE IONIC LAYER ADSORPTION AND REACTIONS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84949599830     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2015.11.045     Document Type: Article

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