Modeling the efficiency of Förster resonant energy transfer from energy relay dyes in dyesensitized solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3893-3904

  Hoke, Eric T ^a   Hardin, Brian E ^b   McGehee, Michael D ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; QUENCHING; SOLAR CELLS;

ANALYTIC THEORY; COLLISIONAL QUENCHING RATES; DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYNAMIC QUENCHING; EXCITATION TRANSFER; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFER; SENSITIZING DYE; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; SURFACE CONCENTRATION;

SOLAR ENERGY;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INSTRUMENTATION; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 77149142871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003893     Document Type: Article

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