Organic dyes with oligo-n-hexylthiophene for dye-sensitized solar cells: Relation between chemical structure of donor and photovoltaic performance

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1250-1256

  Kajiyama, Shingo ^a,b   Uemura, Yu ^a,c   Miura, Hidetoshi ^b   Hara, Kohjiro ^c   Koumura, Nagatoshi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Chemicrea Inc   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adsorption amount of dye; Donor structures; Dye sensitized solar cells; Electron lifetime; Oligo n hexylthiophene linkage; Organic dyes

Indexed keywords

DONOR STRUCTURES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTRON LIFETIME; OLIGO-N-HEXYLTHIOPHENE LINKAGE; ORGANIC DYE;

ADSORPTION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 80053914642     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2011.08.016     Document Type: Article

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