Patent ID: 8889467
Filing Date: 2014-11-18
Classification: H01G,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A method of optimizing positions of a conduction band and a valence band and/or the energy difference between a conduction band and a valence band of a semiconductor material in a semiconductor layer of a photoactive device, and of optimizing an open circuit voltage of said device, using a resultant semiconductor compound having at least a ternary formula A x B 1-x C y , wherein one of A and B is a metalloid and the other is a metal or a metalloid, and wherein C is a non-metal or a metalloid, and wherein x is in the range of from 0.001 to 0.999 and y is in the range of from 0.1 to 10 wherein: said resultant semiconductor compound is synthesized starting from at least two precursor compounds, which are isopropoxides of the general formulae A