Novel Excitonic Solar Cells in Phosphorene-TiO2 Heterostructures with Extraordinary Charge Separation Efficiency

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1880-1887

  Zhou, Liujiang ^a   Zhang, Jin ^b   Zhuo, Zhiwen ^c   Kou, Liangzhi ^d   Ma, Wei ^b   Shao, Bin ^a   Du, Aijun ^d   Meng, Sheng ^b,e   Frauenheim, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SEPARATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; EXCITONIC SOLAR CELLS; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; NONADIABATIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; TYPE II BAND ALIGNMENTS; ULTRAFAST ELECTRON TRANSFER;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84971310842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00475     Document Type: Article

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