Performances improvement of eosin Y sensitized solar cells by modifying TiO2 electrode with silane-coupling reagent

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2633-2640

  Zhou, Yan Fang ^a,b   Li, Xue Ping ^a   Zhang, Jing Bo ^a   Zhou, Xiao Wen ^a   Lin, Yuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Eosin Y; Modification; Organic dye; Silane coupling reagent; TiO2 electrode

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349410730     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0440-8     Document Type: Article

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