Performance variation of nanostructure dye sensitized solar cells with sputtered gold and sprayed graphite counter electrodes

Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 587-592

  Malekshahi Byranvand, M ^a   Bazargan, M H ^b   Nemati Kharat, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b IRANIAN RESEARCH ORGANIZATION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IROST   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cell; Gold sputtered counter electrode; Nanostructure TiO2; Power conversion efficiency ( )

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956971707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18423582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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