Layer-by-layer Au nanoparticles as a Schottky barrier in a water-based dye-sensitized solar cell

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 173-178

  Su, Y H ^a   Lai, W H ^a   Teoh, L G ^b   Hon, M H ^a   Huang, J L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYES; ELECTRONS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SOLAR CELLS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL (DSSC); MAXWELL-GARNETT EQUATION; PHOTO-ELECTRIC CONVERSION;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 34248582503     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-007-3988-7     Document Type: Article

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