A new type of electrolyte with a light-trapping scheme for high-efficiency quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

Advanced Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 48, 2010, Pages 5526-5530

  Wang, Meng ^a   Pan, Xu ^a   Fang, Xiaqin ^a   Guo, Lei ^a   Liu, Weiqing ^a   Zhang, Changneng ^a   Huang, Yang ^a   Hu, Linhua ^a   Dai, Songyuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLASMA PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; electrolytes; Light trapping; Liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INCIDENT LIGHT; LIGHT TRAPPING; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LIQUID ELECTROLYTES; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; QUASI-SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SOLID-STATE ELECTROLYTE;

CRYSTALS; ELECTROLYTES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; COLORING AGENT; ELECTROLYTE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; SOLAR ENERGY;

BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; COLORING AGENTS; ELECTROLYTES; LIGHT; POLYMERS; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 78650385294     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201003044     Document Type: Article

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