Optimizing the photocurrent efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells through the controlled aggregation of chalcogenoxanthylium dyes on nanocrystalline titania films

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 112, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 13057-13061

  Mann, Jonathan R ^a   Gannon, Michael K ^a   Fitzgibbons, Thomas C ^a   Detty, Michael R ^a   Watson, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT EFFICIENCIES; LIGHT-HARVESTING; THIENYL;

ABSORPTION; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION; HARVESTING; METALLIC FILMS; NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 51749098994     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp803990b     Document Type: Article

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