Liquid crystal based electrolyte with light trapping scheme for enhancing photovoltaic performance of quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

Journal of Power Sources

Volumn 196, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5784-5791

  Wang, Meng ^a   Pan, Xu ^a   Fang, Xiaqin ^a   Guo, Lei ^a   Zhang, Changneng ^a   Huang, Yang ^a   Huo, Zhipeng ^a   Dai, Songyuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLASMA PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized; Light trapping; Liquid crystal; Quasi solid state; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSPORT; DYE SENSITIZED; ELECTROCHEMICAL BEHAVIORS; LIGHT TRAPPING; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LONG TERM STABILITY; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLY(VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE-CO-HEXAFLUOROPROPYLENE); POLYMERIC GEL ELECTROLYTE; QUASI-SOLID-STATE; QUASI-SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROLYTES; GELS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 79955481874     PISSN: 03787753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2011.02.051     Document Type: Article

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