Influence of capacitance characteristic on I-V measurement of dye-sensitized solar cells

Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1551-1555

  Tian, Hanmin ^a,b   Zhang, Jiyuan ^a   Wang, Xiangyan ^a   Yu, Tao ^a   Zou, Zhigang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Capacitance characteristic; Current voltage characteristic; Dye sensitized solar cell; Equivalent circuit

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE CHARACTERISTICS; CURRENT VOLTAGE; DYE SOLAR CELLS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT PARAMETER; FORMULA EXPRESSION; I - V CURVE; I-V MEASUREMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATING;

CAPACITANCE; EFFICIENCY; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 80052272042     PISSN: 02632241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.measurement.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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