Improved Sensitization of Zinc Oxide Nanorods by Cadmium Telluride Quantum Dots through Charge Induced Hydrophilic Surface Generation

Table 1

Voltage and current magnitudes for a monolayer of CdTe QD’s on ZnO NR’s w/wo UVA in ambient air.

Samples	Short circuit current density	Open circuit voltage
	(A/cm^2)	(mV)
Defect-free ZnO nanorods based CdTe QD-ZnO solar cell photoelectrodes	150 (+/−8)	37.5
UV defect induced ZnO nanorods based CdTe QD-ZnO solar cell photoelectrodes	250 (+/−12)	41.0