High-bendability flexible dye-sensitized solar cell with a nanoparticle-modified ZnO-nanowire electrode

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Jiang, C Y ^a   Sun, X W ^a,b   Tan, K W ^a   Lo, G Q ^a   Kyaw, A K K ^a   Kwong, D L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMABILITY; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOWIRES; ZINC OXIDE;

CRACK RESISTANCE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; HYDROTHERMAL GROWTH;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 42149111704     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2905271     Document Type: Article

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