Bifacial dye-sensitized solar cells based on an ionic liquid electrolyte

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 693-698

  Ito, Seigo ^a,b   Zakeeruddin, Shaik M ^b   Comte, Pascal ^b   Liska, Paul ^b   Kuang, Daibin ^b   Grätzel, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFACIAL DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; HIGHLY STABLES; INCIDENT LIGHT; IONIC LIQUID ELECTROLYTES; POROUS TIO2 LAYER; RUTHENIUM DYE;

ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY CONVERSION; IONIC LIQUIDS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON OXIDES; SOLAR ENERGY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 55249098416     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.224     Document Type: Article

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