AC conductivity of nanoporous metal-oxide photoanodes for solar energy conversion

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8098, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Konezny, Steven J ^a   Talbayev, Diyar ^a   El Baggari, Ismail ^a   Schmuttenmaer, Charles A ^a   Batista, Victor S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ac conductivity; Charge transport; Nanoporous metal oxides; Photocatalytic cells; Power law; Solar cells; Tunneling

Indexed keywords

AC CONDUCTIVITY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR; METAL-OXIDE; MODEL-BASED OPC; NANO-POROUS; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCONVERSION; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; POWER LAW; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; SOLAR PHOTOCATALYSIS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TUNNELING CONDUCTION; VOLTAGE FLUCTUATIONS;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ENERGY CONVERSION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 80053462998     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.894490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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