Laser annealed composite titanium dioxide electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells on glass and plastics

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Pan, Heng ^a   Ko, Seung Hwan ^a   Misra, Nipun ^a   Grigoropoulos, Costas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; EXCIMER LASERS; GAS LASERS; GLASS; KRYPTON; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLASTICITY; POLYMERS; RUTHENIUM; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CRACK-FREE; DOUBLE-LAYERED STRUCTURES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; LASER ANNEALING; LASER FLUENCE; LAYER BY LAYERS; LIQUID ELECTROLYTES; LOW-TEMPERATURE PROCESS; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RUTHENIUM DYES; SMALL PARTICLES; SPRAY DEPOSITIONS; SPRAY-DEPOSITED; TITANIUM DIOXIDE ELECTRODES;

ANNEALING;

EID: 60749087142     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3082095     Document Type: Article

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