Effects of rare earth ion modifications on the photoelectrochemical properties of ZnO-based dye-sensitized solar cells

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3386-3393

  Lu, Lanlan ^a   Li, Renjie ^a   Peng, Tianyou ^a,b   Fan, Ke ^a   Dai, Ke ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cell; Energy conversion; Rare earth ion modification; ZnO film

Indexed keywords

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; DECAY CURVE MEASUREMENTS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRODE SURFACES; FILL FACTOR; OPEN-CIRCUIT PHOTOVOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; RARE EARTH ION MODIFICATION; RARE EARTH IONS; RARE EARTH OXIDE; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT; SURFACE STATE; ZNO ELECTRODES; ZNO FILMS; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; GADOLINIUM; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LANTHANUM; METAL IONS; METALLIC FILMS; NANOPARTICLES; NEODYMIUM; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; RARE EARTHS; ZINC OXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

DYE; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTRODE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FILM; ION EXCHANGE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79960179641     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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