Low-temperature fabrication of dye-sensitized solar cells by transfer of composite porous layers

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 607-611

  Dürr, Michael ^a   Schmid, Andreas ^a   Obermaier, Markus ^a   Rosselli, Silvia ^a   Yasuda, Akio ^a   Nelles, Gabriele ^a  

^a Sony Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POROUS MATERIALS; POWER CONVERTERS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; REDOX REACTIONS; SUBSTRATES; TITANIUM;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS (DSSC); ORGANIC DYE MOLECULES; PROCESS TEMPERATURE; SINTERING TEMPERATURE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 23244444689     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1433     Document Type: Article

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