All-inorganic spin-cast nanoparticle solar cells with nonselective electrodes

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作者
Anderson, I. E. [1 ]
Breeze, A. J. [2 ]
Olson, J. D. [1 ]
Yang, L. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Sahoo, Y. [3 ]
Carter, S. A. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[2] Solexant Corp, San Jose, CA 95131 USA
[3] SUNY Buffalo, Inst Lasers Photon & Biophoton, Dept Chem, Buffalo, NY 14260 USA
关键词
cadmium compounds; electrochemical electrodes; II-VI semiconductors; nanoparticles; semiconductor heterojunctions; solar cells; wide band gap semiconductors; GENERATION; EFFICIENCY; DOTS;
D O I
10.1063/1.3074368
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
Spin-cast all-inorganic nanoparticle solutions have been used to make a CdTe/CdSe solar cell with an efficiency of up to 2.6% using air stable electrodes and without an additional alumina layer. The type of junction as well as the nonselective nature of the electrodes of these devices are explored.
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