Overcoming kinetic limitations of electron injection in the dye solar cell via coadsorption and FRET

ChemPhysChem

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 793-798

  Siegers, Conrad ^a,b   Würfel, Uli ^b   Zistler, Markus ^c   Gores, Heiner ^c   Hohl Ebinger, Jochen ^d   Hinsch, Andreas ^d   Haag, Rainer ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Donor acceptor systems; FRET (fluorescence resonant energy transfer); Photosynthesis; Ruthenium

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CHROMOPHORES; ELECTRON INJECTION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FORSTER RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RUTHENIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DONOR-ACCEPTOR SYSTEM; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FRET (FLUORESCENCE RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFER); KINETIC LIMITATIONS; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MONOCHROMATIC ILLUMINATION; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 42149143542     PISSN: 14394235     EISSN: 14397641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200700864     Document Type: Article

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