High-performance liquid and solid dye-sensitized solar cells based on a novel metal-free organic sensitizer

Advanced Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 4460-4463

  Wang, Mingkui ^b   Xu, Mingfei ^a   Shi, Dong ^a   Li, Renzhi ^a   Gao, Feifei ^a   Zhang, Guangliang ^a   Yi, Zhihui ^a   Humphry Baker, Robin ^b   Wang, Peng ^a   Zakeeruddin, Shaik M ^b   Grätzel, Michael ^b  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE; DESORPTION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DIGITAL CAMERAS; ELECTROLYTES; IONIC LIQUIDS; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; HIGH YIELDS; HOLE TRANSPORTING MATERIALS; IONIC LIQUID ELECTROLYTES; REDOX POTENTIALS; THREE STEPS; ULTRA MICROELECTRODES;

IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS;

EID: 57349102236     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200801178     Document Type: Article

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