Enhanced charge-collection efficiencies and light scattering in dye-sensitized solar cells using oriented TiO2 nanotubes arrays

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-74

  Zhu, Kai ^a   Neale, Nathan R ^a   Miedaner, Alexander ^a   Frank, Arthur J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE-COLLECTION EFFICIENCIES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS (DSSCS); PORE DIAMETERS; TRANSPORT TIMES;

ANODIC OXIDATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SOLAR CELLS;

NANOTUBE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUNLIGHT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTUBES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SUNLIGHT; TITANIUM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 33846858852     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl062000o     Document Type: Article

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