Dye-sensitized photovoltaic wires using highly ordered TiO2 nanotube arrays

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2196-2200

  Liu, Zhaoyue ^a,b   Misra, Mano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized; Nanotube arrays; Photovoltaic wires

Indexed keywords

COUNTER ELECTRODES; DYE SENSITIZED; ELECTRIC CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GENERATE ELECTRICITY; GLASS TUBES; LONG NANOTUBE; LONG-DISTANCE TRANSPORT; N719 DYE; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; ORDERED ARRAY; ORGANIC ELECTROLYTE; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; PLATINUM WIRE; PROTOTYPE DEVICES; TIO; WORKING ELECTRODE;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PLATINUM; WIRE;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 77951741956     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9015696     Document Type: Article

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