Highly efficient light-harvesting ruthenium sensitizer for thin-film dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3103-3109

  Chen, Chia Yuan ^a   Wang, Mingkui ^b   Li, Jheng Ying ^a   Pootrakulchote, Nuttapol ^b   Alibabaei, Leila ^b   Ngoc Le, Cevey Ha ^b   Decoppet, Jean David ^b   Tsai, Jia Hung ^a   Grätzel, Carole ^b   Wu, Chun Guey ^a   Zakeeruddin, Shaik M ^b   Grätzel, Michael ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Impedance spectroscopy; Photovoltage transient spectroscopy; Ruthenium; Sensitizer; Solar cell; Thiophene

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED TESTS; AIR MASS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTRON-RICH; GOOD STABILITY; HETEROLEPTIC RUTHENIUM COMPLEXES; HOLE-TRANSPORTING MATERIALS; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT-HARVESTING; MOLAR EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; PHOTOVOLTAGE TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RUTHENIUM SENSITIZERS; SENSITIZER; TERMINAL CHAIN; VISIBLE LIGHT;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROLYTES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; THIOPHENE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 70350679017     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900756s     Document Type: Article

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