Metal oxide semiconducting interfacial layers for photovoltaic and photocatalytic applications

Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Elumalai, Naveen Kumar ^a   Vijila, Chellappan ^b   Jose, Rajan ^c   Uddin, Ashraf ^a   Ramakrishna, Seeram ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PAHANG   (Malaysia)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Interfacial layers; Metal oxide semiconductor; Photocatalysts; Photovoltaics; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ENERGY HARVESTING; FREE RADICALS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; MOS DEVICES; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; TRANSISTORS;

INTERFACIAL LAYER; METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR; METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACES; OVERALL POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOCATALYTIC APPLICATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC PROCESS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84958694934     PISSN: 21941459     EISSN: 21941467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40243-015-0054-9     Document Type: Review

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