Dye-sensitized solar cells employing a single film of mesoporous TiO 2 beads achieve power conversion efficiencies over 10%

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4420-4425

  Sauvage, Frédéric ^a   Chen, Dehong ^b   Comte, Pascal ^a   Huang, Fuzhi ^d   Heiniger, Leo Philipp ^a   Cheng, Yi Bing ^d   Caruso, Rachel A ^b,c   Graetzel, Michael ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beads; C101 dye; DSC; Dye sensitized solar cells; TiO2

Indexed keywords

BEADS; C101 DYE; DSC; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; TIO;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 78049395262     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1010396     Document Type: Article

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