Enhance the performances of dye-sensitized solar cell by a new type of sensitizer to co-sensitize zinc oxide photoelectrode with ruthenium complex

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1314-1319

  Zhang, Lingyun ^a,b   Yang, Yulin ^a   Fan, Ruiqing ^a   Wang, Ping ^a   Li, Liang ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bis(imino) pyridine complexes; Co sensitize; Dye; Photovoltaic; Solar cell; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

BIS(IMINO) PYRIDINE COMPLEXES; CHLORINE ATOM; CO-SENSITIZE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ENERGY LEVEL; FILL FACTOR; METAL CENTERS; OPEN-CIRCUIT PHOTOVOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTRODE; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; RUTHENIUM COMPLEXES; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT; SINGLE-CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; SOLAR IRRADIATION; TANDEM STRUCTURE; TRIGONAL BIPYRAMIDAL GEOMETRY; ZNO;

CADMIUM; CHLORINE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COORDINATION REACTIONS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MERCURY (METAL); METAL COMPLEXES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 80054062210     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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