Plastic Microgroove Solar Cells Using CuInSe2 Nanocrystals

ACS Energy Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1021-1027

  Pernik, Douglas R ^a   Gutierrez, Marlene ^a,b   Thomas, Cherrelle ^a   Voggu, Vikas Reddy ^a   Yu, Yixuan ^a   Van Embden, Joel ^c,d   Topping, Alexander J ^e   Jasieniak, Jacek J ^f   Vanden Bout, David A ^a,b   Lewandowski, Raymond ^e   Korgel, Brian A ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Big Solar Limited   (United Kingdom)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COATINGS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; INDUCED CURRENTS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS;

COPPER INDIUM DISELENIDE; HIGH VOLTAGE; LIGHT BEAM INDUCED CURRENTS; MICROMETER SCALE; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC RESPONSE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES (PET); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85032963348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23808195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00470     Document Type: Article

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