Efficiency Enhancement of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells via Photon Management Using Graphene Quantum Dot as Downconverters

Nano Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 309-313

  Tsai, Meng Lin ^a,b   Tu, Wei Chen ^a   Tang, Libin ^c   Wei, Tzu Chiao ^a   Wei, Wan Rou ^a   Lau, Shu Ping ^c   Chen, Lih Juann ^b   He, Jr Hau ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

graphene; heterojunction; photovoltaic; quantum dot; solar cells

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; GRAPHENE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CARRIER SEPARATION; DEPLETION REGION; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; PHOTON MANAGEMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SILICON HETEROJUNCTIONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84957596301     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03814     Document Type: Article

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