Investigation of ionic conductivity and long-term stability of a LiI and KI coupled diphenylamine quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2383-2391

  Agarwala, S ^a   Peh, C K N ^a   Ho, G W ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cell; nanoparticle; quasi solid electrolyte; titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH INHIBITORS; DEVICE STABILITY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRON LIFETIME; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HIGH SURFACE AREA; LONG TERM STABILITY; NANOPARTICLE FILMS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; QUASI-SOLID-ELECTROLYTE; QUASI-SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SUN IRRADIATION; TIO;

ANILINE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROLYTES; ETHYLENE; IODINE; IONIC CONDUCTIVITY; IONS; MECHANICAL STABILITY; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM IODIDE; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

IONIC CONDUCTION IN SOLIDS;

EID: 80053652904     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am200296f     Document Type: Article

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