Titanium doped cupric oxide for photovoltaic application

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 140, Issue , 2015, Pages 266-274

  Masudy Panah, Saeid ^a,b   Radhakrishnan, K ^b   Tan, Hui Ru ^a   Yi, Ren ^a   Wong, Ten It ^a   Dalapati, Goutam Kumar ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cost effective heterojunctions solar cells; CuO based solar cells; Cupric oxide (CuO); Photovoltaic devices; Sputter deposition; Structural property; Ti doped CuO

Indexed keywords

COPPER OXIDES; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEPOSITION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RAPID THERMAL ANNEALING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SPUTTER DEPOSITION; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; TITANIUM;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COST EFFECTIVE; CUPRIC OXIDE; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; TI DOPED;

TITANIUM OXIDES;

EID: 84984920617     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2015.04.024     Document Type: Article

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