Broad spectrum light harvesting in TiO2 nanotube array hemicyanine dye P3HT hybrid solid-state solar cells

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1573-1580

  Kim, Sanghoon ^a   Mor, Gopal K ^a   Paulose, Maggie ^a   Varghese, Oomman K ^a   Shankar, Karthik ^b   Grimes, Craig A ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

organic sensitizer; Organicinorganic hybrid solar cell; photovoltaic device; semiconducting polymer; TiO2 nanotube

Indexed keywords

BROAD SPECTRUM; CONJUGATION LENGTH; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORTING; ELECTRONIC MEDIATORS; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; HEMICYANINE; HEMICYANINE DYE; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; HYBRID SOLIDS; INTERFACIAL ELECTRON TRANSFER; LIGHT-HARVESTING; MOLECULAR ADSORBATE; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; NEAR-IR; ORGANIC DYE; ORGANIC SENSITIZER; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR; P-TYPE; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC STRUCTURES; REGIO-REGULAR; RESEARCH AREAS; SOLAR SPECTRUM; SPECTRUM RESPONSE; SQUARAINES; TIO;

COMPLEXATION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENERGY HARVESTING; FLUORINE; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SUBSTRATES; THIOPHENE; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 78650050457     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2035334     Document Type: Article

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