Materials, interfaces, and photon confinement in dye-sensitized solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 114, Issue 45, 2010, Pages 14582-14591

  Lee, Byunghong ^a   Hwang, Dae Kue ^a   Guo, Peijun ^a   Ho, Shu Te ^a,b   Buchholtz, D B ^a   Wang, Chiu Yen ^b   Chang, R P H ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE; MODELS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE TREATMENT;

AC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; CELL EFFICIENCY; CHARGE TRANSPORT; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; EFFECTS OF MATERIALS; INTERFACIAL MODIFICATION; KINETIC MODELS; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTON CONFINEMENT;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 78650100226     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp102359r     Document Type: Article

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