Highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7416, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Han, Liyuan ^a   Islam, Ashraful ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cell; Equivalent circuit; Haze factor; Internal resistance

Indexed keywords

B-Y IONS; CELL EFFICIENCY; DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; FILL FACTOR; HAZE FACTOR; HAZE FACTORS; INTERFACIAL CHARGE; INTERNAL RESISTANCE; PLATINUM COUNTER ELECTRODES; SERIES RESISTANCES; SHUNT RESISTANCES; TIO; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLATINUM; REDOX REACTIONS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 70449553096     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.829181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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