High excitation transfer efficiency from energy relay dyes in dye-sensitized solar cells

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3077-3083

  Hardin, Brian E ^a   Yum, Jun Ho ^b   Hoke, Eric T ^c   Jun, Young Chul ^c   Péchy, Peter ^b   Torres, Tomás ^d   Brongersma, Mark L ^a   Nazeeruddin, Md Khaja ^b   Grätzel, Michael ^b   McGehee, Michael D ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

dye sensitized dolar cell; energy relay dye; energy transfer; Solar cell; titania

Indexed keywords

DICYANOMETHYLENE; DYE SENSITIZED; DYE-SENSITIZED DOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ENERGY RELAY DYE; EXCITATION TRANSFER; MESOSTRUCTURED; MOLAR EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; NEAR INFRARED; OVERALL POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; SENSITIZING DYE; TIO;

ACETONITRILE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY TRANSFER; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 77955564861     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl1016688     Document Type: Article

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