Optimizing Photovoltaic Response by Tuning Light-Harvesting Nanocrystal Shape Synthesized Using a Quick Liquid-Gas Phase Reaction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 51, 2015, Pages 28188-28196

  Mazumdar, Sayantan ^a   Tamilselvan, Muthusamy ^a   Bhattacharyya, Aninda J ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

ac impedance spectroscopy; liquid gas phase reaction; nanocrystals with mixed crystal phases and shape; photoanode; recombination resistance and electron lifetime; sensitized solar cell

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CADMIUM SULFIDE SOLAR CELLS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTRONS; GASES; LIQUEFIED GASES; LIQUIDS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE INTERFACES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AC IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON LIFETIME; GAS-PHASE REACTIONS; MIXED CRYSTALS; PHOTO-ANODES; SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84952887000     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08595     Document Type: Article

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