Electronic structures and absorption properties of three kinds of ruthenium dye sensitizers containing bipyridine-pyrazolate for solar cells

Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1843-1848

  Zhang, Cai Rong ^a   Liu, Zi Jiang ^b,c   Sun, Yi Tong ^d   Shen, Yu Lin ^d   Chen, Yu Hong ^a   Liu, Yan Jun ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Zhang, Hai Ming ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b LANZHOU CITY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS   (China)

^d Gansu Computing Center   (China)

Author keywords

Absorption spectra; Density functional theory; Dye sensitizer; Electronic structure

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION PROPERTY; ANCILLARY LIGANDS; CONVERSION PROCESS; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE SENSITIZER; DYE SENSITIZERS; ELECTRONIC ABSORPTION SPECTRA; INJECTION PROCESS; INTERFACIAL ELECTRON TRANSFER; INTRA-MOLECULAR CHARGE TRANSFER; METAL-TO-LIGAND CHARGE TRANSFER; PYRAZOLATE; RUTHENIUM COMPLEXES; RUTHENIUM DYE; TERMINAL GROUPS; TIME-DEPENDENT DFT; TIO; UV REGION; VISIBLE REGION;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHROMOPHORES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ION EXCHANGE; LIGANDS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION;

2,2' BIPYRIDINE; COLORING AGENT; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; PYRAZOLE; PYRAZOLE DERIVATIVE; RUTHENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

2,2'-DIPYRIDYL; ABSORPTION; COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PYRAZOLES; QUANTUM THEORY; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79960282222     PISSN: 13861425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2011.05.070     Document Type: Article

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