Study of hybrid solar cells made of multilayer nanocrystalline titania and poly(3-octylthiophene) or poly-(3-(2-methylhex-2-yl)-oxy-carbonyldithiophene)

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 49, 2009, Pages

  Antoniadou, Maria ^a   Stathatos, Elias ^b   Boukos, Nikolaos ^c   Stefopoulos, Andreas ^a   Kallitsis, Joannis ^a   Krebs, Frederik C ^d   Lianos, Panagiotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; BACK ELECTRODE; BLOCKING LAYERS; DYE SENSITIZERS; FLUORINE-DOPED; HOLE-TRANSPORTING POLYMER; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; LITHIUM SALTS; NANO-STRUCTURED LAYER; NANOCRYSTALLINE TITANIA; OPEN STRUCTURE; POLY(3-OCTYLTHIOPHENE); POLYMER INTERFACES; POLYMER PENETRATION; THREE-LAYER; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE; TWO STAGE;

CATALYST ACTIVITY; FLUORINE; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; POLYMERS; TIN; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES;

SOLAR CELLS;

LITHIUM SALT; NANOCRYSTAL; POLY [3 (2 METHYLHEX 2 YL) OXYCARBONYLDITHIOPHENE]; POLY(3 OCTYLTHIOPHENE); POLYMER; TIN OXIDE; TITANIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRODE; HYBRID CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 70449933964     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/49/495201     Document Type: Article

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