Parasitic Absorption Reduction in Metal Oxide-Based Transparent Electrodes: Application in Perovskite Solar Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 27, 2016, Pages 17260-17267

  Werner, Jérémie ^a   Geissbühler, Jonas ^a,b   Dabirian, Ali ^a   Nicolay, Sylvain ^b   Morales Masis, Monica ^a   Wolf, Stefaan De ^a   Niesen, Bjoern ^a,b   Ballif, Christophe ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CO2; molybdenum oxide; perovskite; plasma treatment; silicon heterojunction; solar cell; tandem; tungsten oxide

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; METALS; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; OXIDES; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

ELECTROCHROMIC PROPERTIES; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITIES; PLASMA TREATMENT; SILICON HETEROJUNCTIONS; TANDEM; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDES; TUNGSTEN OXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84978381187     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b04425     Document Type: Article

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