Improved power conversion efficiency for bulk heterojunction solar cells incorporating CdTe-CdSe nanoheterostructure acceptors and a conjugated polymer donor

Journal of Photonics for Energy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Dayal, Smita ^a   Zhong, Haizheng ^b   Kopidakis, Nikos ^a   Scholes, Gregory D ^c   Rumbles, Garry ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

nanoheterostructures; p3HT; PCPDTBT; photovoltaic devices; solar power conversion efficiency

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON AFFINITY; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLVENTS;

NANO-HETEROSTRUCTURES; P3HT; PCPDTBT; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SOLAR POWER CONVERSION;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84961290026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19477988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JPE.5.057409     Document Type: Article

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