Durability test of PVP-capped Pt nanoclusters counter electrode for highly efficiency dye-sensitized solar cell

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-50

  Lan, Jo Lin ^a   Wan, Chi Chao ^a   Wei, Tzu Chien ^b   Hsu, Wen Chi ^b   Chang, Ya Huei ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Tripod Technology Corporation   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

counter electrode; DSSC; durability; platinum nanoclusters

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS LIGHT; COUNTER ELECTRODES; DSSC; DURABILITY TEST; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTIONS; HIGHLY EFFICIENCY; LIGHT SOAKING; NON-VOLATILE ELECTROLYTE; PLATINUM NANOCLUSTERS; PT NANOCLUSTERS; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; THERMAL DURABILITY; THERMAL TESTS; VOLATILE ELECTROLYTES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DURABILITY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROLYTES; NANOCLUSTERS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PLATINUM;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84855331060     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.1107     Document Type: Article

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