CdSeTe/CdS Type-I Core/Shell Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells with Efficiency over 9%

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 52, 2015, Pages 28800-28808

  Yang, Junwei ^a   Wang, Jin ^a   Zhao, Ke ^a   Izuishi, Takuya ^b   Li, Yan ^a   Shen, Qing ^b   Zhong, Xinhua ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CADMIUM SULFIDE SOLAR CELLS; CHARGE TRAPPING; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COREMAKING; DEFECT DENSITY; DEFECTS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY GAP; NANOCRYSTALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE DEFECTS;

BANDGAP MATERIALS; CHARGE RECOMBINATION PROCESS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE DECAYS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; QUANTUM DOTS-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84953339452     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b10546     Document Type: Article

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