A theoretical interpretation and screening of porphyrin sensitizer candidates with anticipated good photo-to-electric conversion performances for dye-sensitized solar cells

Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM

Volumn 942, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 131-136

  Ma, Ruimin ^a   Guo, Ping ^a   Yang, Linlin ^a   Guo, Lianshun ^a   Zeng, Qinghua ^a   Liu, Guoqun ^b   Zhang, Xianxi ^a  

^a LIAOCHENG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHONGYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Dye sensitized solar cells; Molecule design; Orbital energy level; Porphyrin

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149127218     PISSN: 01661280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theochem.2009.12.011     Document Type: Article

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