Nitrogen-doped carbon dots for “green” quantum dot solar cells

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Hao ^a   Sun, Pengfei ^a   Cong, Shan ^a   Wu, Jiang ^b   Gao, Lijun ^a   Wang, Yun ^a   Dai, Xiao ^a   Yi, Qinghua ^a   Zou, Guifu ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon dots; Nitrogen doped; Quantum dot solar cells

Indexed keywords

CARBON; EFFICIENCY; NANOCRYSTALS; NITROGEN; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS;

CARBON DOTS; ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION; EXCITONIC ABSORPTION; NITROGEN-DOPED; NITROGEN-DOPED CARBONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS; SUN ILLUMINATION;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 85007495755     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-016-1231-1     Document Type: Article

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