Real-time optical waveguide measurements of dye adsorption into nanocrystalline TiO2 films with relevance to dye-sensitized solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 613-619

  Peic, Antun ^a   Staff, Daniel ^b   Risbridger, Thomas ^a   Menges, Bernhard ^c   Peter, Laurence M ^a   Walker, Alison B ^b   Cameron, Petra J ^a  

^a University of Bath Claverton Down   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESORPTION STUDY; DYE ADSORPTION; DYE CONCENTRATION; DYE MOLECULE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; GOLD SUBSTRATES; GUIDED MODES; GUIDED WAVE; MESOPOROUS; MESOPOROUS LAYERS; NANOCRYSTALLINE FILMS; NANOCRYSTALLINE TIO; NANOCRYSTALLINE TITANIUM DIOXIDE; OPTICAL MODES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE SPECTROSCOPIES; POROUS TITANIA; PRELIMINARY MODEL; PRISM COUPLINGS; REAL TIME; REGULAR ARRAY; SINGLE DIFFUSION; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; SURFACE COVERAGES; TIO; TOTAL PORE VOLUME; TRACK CHANGES; WAVEGUIDE MEASUREMENTS;

ADSORPTION; DESORPTION; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RUTHENIUM; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WAVEGUIDES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 78751652302     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp109316j     Document Type: Article

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