The recent surge in the utilization of semiconductor nanostructures for solar energy
conversion has led to the development of high-efficiency solar cells. Some of these recent …

The emergence of semiconductor nanocrystals as the building blocks of nanotechnology
has opened up new ways to utilize them in next generation solar cells. This paper focuses …

One of the foremost challenges in solar cells industry is reducing the cost/watt of delivered
solar electricity. In conventional microstructures (bulk) singlejunction solar cells, photons …

Semiconductor quantum dots may be used in so-called third-generation solar cells that have
the potential to greatly increase the photon conversion efficiency via two effects:(1) the …

By using bifunctional surface modifiers (SH− R− COOH), CdSe quantum dots (QDs) have
been assembled onto mesoscopic TiO2 films. Upon visible light excitation, CdSe QDs inject …

Different-sized CdSe quantum dots have been assembled on TiO2 films composed of
particle and nanotube morphologies using a bifunctional linker molecule. Upon band-gap …

Among next-generation photovoltaic systems requiring low cost and high efficiency,
quantum dot (QD)-based solar cells stand out as a very promising candidate because of the …

Semiconductors show dramatic quantization effects when charge carriers (electrons and
holes) are confined by potential barriers to small regions of space where the dimensions of …

In recent years colloidal quantum dots solar cells have been the subject of extensive
research. A promising alternative to existing silicon solar cells, quantum dot solar cells are …

Colloidally grown nanosized semiconductors yield extremely high‐quality optoelectronic
materials. Many examples have pointed to near perfect photoluminescence quantum yields …