Enhanced harvesting of red photons in nanowire solar cells: Evidence of resonance energy transfer

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 788-794

  Shankar, Karthik ^a,b   Feng, Xinjian ^b   Grimes, Craig A ^a,b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrays; Dye sensitized solar cells; Energy transfer; Light harvesting; Nanowire arrays; Photoelectrochemistry; Rutile nanowires; Semiconductor; Tio 2; Titania

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; LIGHT HARVESTING; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMISTRY; RUTILE NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTOR; TIO 2; TITANIA;

CELL MEMBRANES; CHEMICAL BONDS; CHROMOPHORES; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRIC WIRE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; HARVESTING; LIGHT; MONOLAYERS; NANOWIRES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RESONANCE; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 67049145808     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900090x     Document Type: Article

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