TiO 2 fibers enhance film integrity and photovoltaic performance for electrophoretically deposited dye solar cell photoanodes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 638-641

  Shooshtari, Leyla ^a   Rahman, Masoud ^a   Tajabadi, Fariba ^a   Taghavinia, Nima ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

crack; dye solar cells; electrophoretic deposition; porosity; TiO2 fibers

Indexed keywords

CO-ELECTROPHORETIC DEPOSITION; CRACK FORMATION; DYE SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTROPHORETIC DEPOSITION; ELECTROPHORETIC DEPOSITIONS; FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; NANOPARTICLE FILMS; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTO-VOLTAIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTOANODE; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; ROUGHNESS FACTOR; SINGLE-STEP; TIO; TIO2 FIBERS; WET COATING;

CRACKS; ELECTROPHORESIS; FIBERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POROSITY; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

DEPOSITION;

TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPLATING INDUSTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPLATING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM;

EID: 79955963741     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am101177b     Document Type: Article

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