A carbon gel catalyst layer for the roll-to-roll production of dye solar cells

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 528-532

  Miettunen, Kati ^a   Toivola, Minna ^a   Hashmi, Ghufran ^a   Salpakari, Jyri ^a   Asghar, Imran ^a   Lund, Peter ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; CARBON GEL; CATALYST LAYERS; COUNTER ELECTRODES; DYE SOLAR CELLS; FLEXIBLE PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; LOW COSTS; LOW TEMPERATURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; ROLL TO ROLL; SPECIAL APPLICATIONS;

CATALYSTS; GELS; SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 78650006373     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.09.052     Document Type: Article

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