Low resistance dye-sensitized solar cells based on all-titanium substrates using wires and sheets

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 255, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 9020-9025

  Wang, Hai ^a,b   Liu, Yong ^a   Huang, Hong ^c   Zhong, Minyi ^a   Shen, Hui ^a   Wang, Yuanhao ^d   Yang, Hongxing ^d  

^a State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

All titanium substrate; Counter electrode; Dye sensitized solar cell; Sheet resistance; TiO 2 thin films

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; FILM THICKNESS; SHEET RESISTANCE; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM SHEET; WIRE;

ALL TITANIUM SUBSTRATES; BACK REFLECTION; COUNTER ELECTRODES; DIFFUSED LIGHT; HIGH CELL PERFORMANCE; INTERNAL RESISTANCE; TIO2 THIN FILMS; TITANIUM WIRES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 68649114285     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2009.06.085     Document Type: Article

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