Far-red absorbing squarylium dyes with terminally connected electron-accepting units for organic dye-sensitized solar cells

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 275-283

  Maeda, Takeshi ^a   Nakao, Hidekazu ^b   Kito, Hisashi ^a   Ichinose, Hirokazu ^a   Yagi, Shigeyuki ^a   Nakazumi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b Nard Institute Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Metal free; Nanocrystalline TiO2; Squarylium dyes; Tetracyanoanthraquinodimethane; Tetracyanoquinodimethane

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; NANOCRYSTALLINE TIO2; SQUARYLIUM DYES; TETRACYANOANTHRAQUINODIMETHANE; TETRACYANOQUINODIMETHANE;

CHROMOPHORES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DYES; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ELECTRONS; ENERGY CONVERSION; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 79952384760     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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