Photovoltaic performance of solid-state DSSCs sensitized with organic isophorone dyes: Effect of dye-loaded amount and dipole moment

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-27

  Liu, Bo ^a,b   Li, Xiaoyan ^b   Liu, Miaoyin ^c   Ning, Zhijun ^a   Zhang, Qiong ^a   Li, Chen ^c   Müllen, Klaus ^c   Zhu, Weihong ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dipole moment; Dye loaded amount; Isophorone; Organic sensitizers; Solar cells; Solid state

Indexed keywords

DYE-LOADED AMOUNT; FILL FACTOR; HOLE-TRANSPORTING MATERIALS; ISOPHORONE; ISOPHORONES; LIGHT-HARVESTING; NEGATIVE CHARGE; OPEN-CIRCUIT PHOTOVOLTAGE; ORGANIC SENSITIZERS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; RUTHENIUM DYE; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT; SOLID-STATE; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; TIO;

DIPOLE MOMENT; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; RUTHENIUM; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84055193961     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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