Nanocrystalline titanium oxide electrodes for photovoltaic applications

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3157-3171

  Barbé, Christophe J ^a,b   Arendse, Francine ^a   Comte, Pascal ^a   Jirousek, Marie ^a   Lenzmann, Frank ^a   Shklover, Valery ^a   Grätzel, Michael ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; ELECTRODES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POROSITY; SINTERING; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CERAMIC FILMS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0031360813     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1997.tb03245.x     Document Type: Article

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