Remarkable synergistic effects in a mixed porphyrin dye-sensitized TiO 2 film

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Griffith, Matthew J ^a   Mozer, Attila J ^a   Tsekouras, George ^a,c   Dong, Ying ^a   Wagner, Pawel ^a   Wagner, Klaudia ^a   Wallace, Gordon G ^a   Mori, Shogo ^b   Officer, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED PHOTONS; DYE SENSITIZED; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; TIO;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PORPHYRINS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 79955379571     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3576904     Document Type: Article

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