Efficient dye-sensitized solar cells using electrospun Ti O2 nanofibers as a light harvesting layer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Chuangchote, Surawut ^a   Sagawa, Takashi ^a   Yoshikawa, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINATION; COLLOIDS; DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; GELATION; METALLIZING; NANOFIBERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES;

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); ANATASE (TIO2); AVERAGE DIAMETER; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS (DSSC); ELECTROSPUN; HIGH CRYSTALLINITY; LIGHT HARVESTING; NANO PARTICLES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL (1D) STRUCTURES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL; SOL-GEL TECHNIQUES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 48249129195     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2958347     Document Type: Article

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