Mesophase ordering of TiO2 film with high surface area and strong light harvesting for dye-sensitized solar cell

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1844-1850

  Agarwala, S ^a   Kevin, M ^a   Wong, A S W ^b   Peh, C K N ^a   Thavasi, V ^a   Ho, G W ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cells; light scattering; mesoporous; self assembly; titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

CALCINATION TEMPERATURE; CELL PERFORMANCE; CONCENTRATION OF; CRACK FREE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; HIGH CRYSTALLINITY; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH SURFACE AREA; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; HOMOGENEOUS FILMS; LARGE SURFACE AREA; LIGHT-HARVESTING; MESOPHASE ORDERING; MESOPOROUS; MESOPOROUS FILMS; MESOPOROUS STRUCTURES; MESOPOROUS TIO; MESOPOROUS TITANIUM DIOXIDE; PORE MORPHOLOGY; SCATTERING CENTERS; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT; SURFACE AREA; TIO;

CALCINATION; HARVESTING; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SCATTERING; SELF ASSEMBLY; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

NANOPARTICLE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; POROSITY; SOLAR ENERGY;

MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOPARTICLES; POROSITY; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM;

EID: 77956627445     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am100421e     Document Type: Article

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