New approach to low-cost dye-sensitized solar cells with back contact electrodes

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4974-4979

  Fuke, Nobuhiro ^a   Fukui, Atsushi ^a   Komiya, Ryohichi ^a   Islam, Ashraful ^a   Chiba, Yasuo ^a   Yanagida, Masatoshi ^b   Yamanaka, Ryohsuke ^a   Han, Liyuan ^a  

^a SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; DIGITAL CAMERAS; DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTRON IRRADIATION; METALLIZING; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

BACK CONTACT ELECTRODES; BACK CONTACTS; DYE ADSORPTION; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRON COLLECTIONS; LIGHT IRRADIATIONS; MAIN FACTORS; NEW APPROACHES; PRODUCTION COSTS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 50249164308     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm800797v     Document Type: Article

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