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CdSe‐Sensitized p‐CuSCN/Nanowire n‐ZnO Heterojunctions
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This article is published in Advanced Materials.The article was published on 2005-06-17. It has received 428 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cadmium selenide.read more
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Perovskites: The Emergence of a New Era for Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Solar Cells
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Semiconductor nanowires for energy conversion.
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One-dimensional ZnO nanostructures: Solution growth and functional properties
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ZnO nanostructures for optoelectronics: Material properties and device applications
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Quantum‐Dot‐Sensitized Solar Cells
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On the optical band gap of zinc oxide
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TL;DR: In this paper, the optical properties of ZnO crystals using a variety of optical techniques were compared and it was concluded that the room temperature band gap is 3.3 eV and that the other values are attributable to a valence band-donor transition at ∼3.15
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A dye-sensitized nano-porous solid-state photovoltaic cell
Kirthi Tennakone,G.R.R.A. Kumara,A.R. Kumarasinghe,K.G.U. Wijayantha,Prasad Manjusr Sirimanne +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, a photovoltaic cell was fabricated by sandwiching a monolayer of the pigment cyanidin adsorbed on nano-porous n-TiO2 film (deposited on conducting tin oxide glass) within a transparent polycrystalline film of p-CuI, filling the intercrystallite pores.
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Electrodeposited Nanocomposite n–p Heterojunctions for Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Photovoltaics
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