Heavy‐Metal‐Free Colloidal Quantum Dots: Progress and Opportunities in Solar Technologies

L **, GS Selopal, X Tong, DF Perepichka… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) hold great promise as building blocks in solar technologies
owing to their remarkable photostability and adjustable properties through the rationale …

Quantum junction solar cells: Development and prospects

S Aftab, MZ Iqbal, S Hussain, F Kabir… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocrystals, called semiconductor quantum dots (QDs), contain excitons that are three‐
dimensionally bound. QDs exhibit a discontinuous electronic energy level structure that is …

Stability of quantum dot-sensitized solar cells: A review and prospects

AS Rasal, S Yadav, AA Kashale, A Altaee, JY Chang - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
With state‐of‐the‐art quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) surpassing 15% of
power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). Despite current advancements in this field, the poor …

Design of an Efficient AgInSe2 Chalcopyrite‐Based Heterojunction Thin‐Film Solar Cell

MS Hossen, AT Abir, J Hossain - Energy Technology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, AgInSe2 absorber–based n‐In2S3/p‐AgInSe2/p+‐molybdenum disulfide
heterojunction thin‐film solar device is numerically explored with the help of SCAPS‐1D …

A review on I–III–VI ternary quantum dots for fluorescence detection of heavy metals ions in water: optical properties, synthesis and application

BM May, MF Bambo, SS Hosseini, U Sidwaba… - RSC …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Heavy metal contamination remains a major threat to the environment. Evaluating the
concentrations of heavy metals in water environments is a crucial step towards a viable …

I-III-VI core/shell QDs: Synthesis, characterizations and applications

S Jain, S Bharti, GK Bhullar, SK Tripathi - Journal of Luminescence, 2020 - Elsevier
Colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have proven to be ideal candidates for low
cost and high performance applications. From the past few decades, I-III-VI QDs have …

High-efficiency photoelectrochemical cathodic protection performance of the TiO2/AgInSe2/In2Se3 multijunction nanosheet array

X Jiang, M Sun, Z Chen, J **g, C Feng - Corrosion Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Optimization of multijunction photoelectric conversion materials with a much negative band
potential is very important for improving the photoelectric conversion and …

Synthesis, photophysical properties and surface chemistry of chalcopyrite-type semiconductor nanocrystals

D Moodelly, P Kowalik, P Bujak, A Pron… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Ternary and quaternary chalcopyrite-type nanocrystals of MIMIIIE2 and MIMIIIZnE2 type (MI=
Ag, Cu; MIII= In, Fe; E= S, Se) and their core/shell structures have attracted a huge interest in …

Nanocomposite photoanodes consisting of p-NiO/n-ZnO heterojunction and carbon quantum dot additive for dye-sensitized solar cells

TA Geleta, T Imae - ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2021 - ACS Publications
To increase the performance of power conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells
(DSSCs), in the current paper, nanocomposites of n-type ZnO and p-type NiO …

Near‐infrared photoactive semiconductor quantum dots for solar cells

R Zhou, J Xu, P Luo, L Hu, X Pan, J Xu… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are nanocrystals whose excitons are bound in 3D
space. Owning to their remarkable quantum confinement effect, QDs exhibit a discontinuous …