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Solar Cells: Pulsed Laser Ablation Based Synthesis of PbS‐Quantum Dots‐Decorated One‐Dimensional Nanostructures and Their Direct Integration into Highly Efficient Nanohybrid Heterojunction‐Based Solar Cells (Adv. Funct. Mater. 26/2014)
Author(s) -
Ka I.,
Gonfa B.,
Le Borgne V.,
Ma D.,
El Khakani M. A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201470169
Subject(s) - materials science , nanorod , nanotechnology , heterojunction , nanomaterials , quantum dot , pulsed laser deposition , laser ablation , nanostructure , nanoparticle , carbon nanotube , polymer solar cell , solar cell , hybrid solar cell , laser , optoelectronics , thin film , optics , physics
Nanohybrid heterojunction (NH‐HJ) solar cells are developed on page 4042 by M. A. El Khakani and co‐workers using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) to decorate TiO 2 nanorods and single carbon nanotubes with PbS nanoparticles, and to integrate the formed nanohybrids directly into photovoltaic devices. This approach offers the latitude to achieve the direct assembly of different nanomaterials, thereby forming novel nanohybrids. By optimizing the size of the particles and tube lengths, NH‐HJ solar cells exhibiting power conversion efficiencies as high as 5.3% are achieved.