Increased light harvesting in dye-sensitized solar cells with energy relay dyes

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 406-411

  Hardin, Brian E ^a,b   Hoke, Eric T ^a   Armstrong, Paul B ^c   Yum, Jun Ho ^b   Comte, Pascal ^b   Torres, Tomás ^d   Fréchet, Jean M J ^c   Nazeeruddin, Md Khaja ^b   Grätzel, Michael ^b   McGehee, Michael D ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFER; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT DENSITIES; SPECTRAL ABSORPTIONS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

CHROMOPHORES; ENERGY TRANSFER; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 68049128985     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.96     Document Type: Article

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