Nanowire dye-sensitized solar cells

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 455-459

  Law, Matt ^a,b   Greene, Lori E ^a,b   Johnson, Justin C ^a   Saykally, Richard ^a   Yang, Peidong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYES; ELECTRIC WIRE; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; HEAT FLUX; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; PYROLYSIS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; THICK FILMS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS (DSC); ELECTRON DIFFUSIVITY; NANOWIRE ANODES; SOLAR FLUX;

SOLAR CELLS;

COLORING AGENT; NANOTUBE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLORING AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; RADIATION DOSAGE; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 20144369634     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1387     Document Type: Article

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