Ruthenium complex-cored dendrimers: Shedding light on efficiency trade-offs in dye-sensitised solar cells

Organic Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1356-1363

  An, Byeong Kwan ^a   Mulherin, Rhiannon ^a   Langley, Benjamin ^a   Burn, Paul ^a   Meredith, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dendrimer; Dye sensitised solar cell; Light harvesting; Molecular volume

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLATION; CHROMOPHORES; DENDRIMERS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EFFICIENCY; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CARBOXYLATE GROUPS; DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LIGHT-HARVESTING; MOLAR EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; MOLECULAR VOLUME; RUTHENIUM COMPLEXES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 69549119854     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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