Examining architectures of photoanode-photovoltaic tandem cells for solar water splitting

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-24

  Brillet, Jeremie ^a   Comuz, Maurin ^a   Formal, Florian Le ^a   Yum, Jun Ho ^a   Grätzel, Michael ^a   Sivula, Kevin ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CURVE; DYE CELLS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; MULTIPHOTONS; NANO-STRUCTURED; OPERATING CURRENT DENSITIES; ORGANIC DYE; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTOANODE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; SOLAR WATER SPLITTING; SOLAR-TO-HYDROGEN; SQUARAINES; STATE-OF-THE-ART DEVICES; TANDEM CELLS; TANDEM SYSTEM; WATER SPLITTING;

ARCHITECTURE; HEMATITE; HYDROGEN; IRON ORES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 77952819454     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2010.0009     Document Type: Article

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