Role of electrolytes on charge recombination in dye-sensitized TiO 2 solar cell (1): The case of solar cells using the I -/I3- redox couple

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 3480-3487

  Nakade, Shogo ^a   Kanzaki, Taisuke ^a   Kubo, Wataru ^a   Kitamura, Takayuki ^a   Wada, Yuji ^a   Yanagida, Shozo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIFFUSION; DYES; ELECTROLYTES; IODINE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POSITIVE IONS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS (DSC); ELECTRON DIFFUSION; REDOX COUPLE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 14844366719     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp0460036     Document Type: Article

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