Charge transport and photocurrent generation characteristics in dye solar cells containing thermally degraded N719 dye molecules

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 115, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 15598-15606

  Andersen, Anders Rand ^a,b   Halme, Janne ^c   Lund, Torben ^d   Asghar, Muhammad Imran ^c   Nguyen, Phuong Tuyet ^d   Miettunen, Kati ^c   Kemppainen, Erno ^c   Albrektsen, Ole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4-TERT-BUTYLPYRIDINE; BLUE SHIFT; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CURRENT VOLTAGE; DYE REGENERATION; DYE SOLAR CELLS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTRON DIFFUSION LENGTH; ELECTRON RECOMBINATIONS; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT EFFICIENCIES; LIGAND SUBSTITUTION; LIGHT-HARVESTING; N719 DYE; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; PERFORMANCE TESTS; PHOTOCURRENT GENERATIONS; SUBSTITUTION PRODUCTS; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION; LIGANDS;

ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79961227231     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp201658j     Document Type: Article

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