Enhancement of photovoltaic performance of a novel dye, "t18", with ketene thioacetal groups as electron donors for high efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells

Inorganica Chimica Acta

Volumn 363, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2409-2415

  Kisserwan, Hawraa ^a   Ghaddar, Tarek H ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

DSSC; Dye sensitization; Ketene thioacetal; Ruthenium; Solar cell; T18

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTES; IODINE; RED SHIFT; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

DSSC; DYE SENSITIZATION; INJECTED ELECTRONS; IODINE-FREE ELECTROLYTES; KETENE THIOACETAL; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; RECOMBINATION PROCESS; TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM SALTS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 77955425854     PISSN: 00201693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2010.03.069     Document Type: Article

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