Voltage-enhancement mechanisms of an organic dye in high open-circuit voltage solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 8267-8274

  Jang, Song Rim ^a,b   Zhu, Kai ^a   Ko, Min Jae ^b   Kim, Kyungkon ^b   Kim, Chulhee ^c   Park, Nam Gyu ^b,d   Frank, Arthur J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c Inha University   (South Korea)

^d Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

high Voc; organic sensitizer; recombination kinetics; solid state dye sensitized solar cells; spiro MeOTAD

Indexed keywords

HIGH VOC; ORGANIC SENSITIZER; RECOMBINATION KINETICS; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SPIRO-MEOTAD;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; REDOX REACTIONS; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 80054974016     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2029567     Document Type: Article

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