Ag nanoparticle-decorated single wall carbon nanotube films for photovoltaic applications

Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Anouar, Mokhtar ^a   Jbilat, Rhanem ^a   Le Borgne, Vincent ^a   Ma, Dongling ^a   El Khakani, My Ali ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Photovoltaic; Pulsed laser deposition; Silver nanoparticles; Single wall carbon nanotubes; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM COMPOUNDS; CARBON FILMS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOCURRENTS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PULSED LASERS; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SOLAR CELLS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; FILM RESISTANCE; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL SCATTERING; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPY;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84959054967     PISSN: 21941459     EISSN: 21941467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40243-015-0065-6     Document Type: Article

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