DFT investigation of the TiO2 band shift by nitrogen-containing heterocycle adsorption and implications on dye-sensitized solar cell performance

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 84-87

  Kusama, Hitoshi ^a   Orita, Hideo ^a   Sugihara, Hideki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Band shift; Density functional theory; Dye sensitized solar cell

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FERMI LEVEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION; GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION; HETEROCYCLE ADSORPTION; NEGATIVE SHIFTS;

TITANIUM OXIDES;

EID: 35348966207     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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