Multilayer structure with gradual increasing porosity for dye-sensitized solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Tian, Zhipeng ^a   Tian, Hanmin ^a   Wang, Xiangyan ^a   Yuan, Shikui ^a   Zhang, Jiyuan ^a   Zhang, Xiaobo ^a   Yu, Tao ^a   Zou, Zhigang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MULTILAYERS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POROSITY; REFRACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; FLUORINE-DOPED TIN OXIDES; I-V CHARACTERISTICS; LIGHT-HARVESTING; MULTI-LAYER STRUCTURES; POROSITY MEASUREMENTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SHORT CIRCUITS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING GLASS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 58849141703     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3073834     Document Type: Article

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