Near-infrared sunlight harvesting in dye-sensitized solar cells via the insertion of an upconverter-TiO2 nanocomposite layer

Advanced Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 39, 2010, Pages 4373-4377

  Shan, Guo Bin ^a   Demopoulos, George P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized Solar Cells; Nanocomposites; Near Infrared Light; TiO2; Upconversion

Indexed keywords

CO-DOPED; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; MIDDLE LAYER; NANO-COMPOSITE LAYERS; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; PHOTOANODE; TIO; UP-CONVERSION; UP-CONVERTER; VISIBLE LIGHT;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ERBIUM; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOCOMPOSITES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; YTTERBIUM;

SOLAR CELLS;

COLORING AGENT; NANOCOMPOSITE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; INFRARED RADIATION; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY;

COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; INFRARED RAYS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM;

EID: 78349297597     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201001816     Document Type: Article

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